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Spotted Fever (spotted + fever)
Selected AbstractsFatal Israeli Spotted Fever in a UK Traveler to South PortugalJOURNAL OF TRAVEL MEDICINE, Issue 2 2008Joshua T.Y. Chai MB Bchir A 63-year-old previously healthy woman developed a severe systemic infection 5 days after returning from a holiday to Southern Portugal. She subsequently died, and polymerase chain reaction of a blood sample was positive for Rickettsia conorii ssp israeliensis. The prevalence of severe forms of this illness in the Mediterranean Basin is discussed. [source] Thrombogenic Vasculopathy and Interstitial to Diffuse Dermal Neutrophilic Inflammation as a Histologic Manifestation of Tick Bite ReactionJOURNAL OF CUTANEOUS PATHOLOGY, Issue 1 2005Urvi Pajvani BS Ticks are ectoparasites that cause dermatologic disease both directly through physical trauma to the skin, salivary secretions, or remnant body parts, and indirectly through transmission of disease. Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia, and babesiosis are known tick-transmitted diseases. The histopathology related to a primary tick bite, similar to other arthropod bites, classically consists of a perivascular infiltrate composed of lymphocytes, neutrophils, histiocytes, plasma cells, and eosinophils in varying amounts. We describe five patients with a novel histologic reaction to embedded tick parts., Each case demonstrates a thrombotic vasculopathy consisting of intraluminal eosinophilic deposits that stain strongly with Periodic acid Schiff stain. The adjacent tissue shows dermal necrosis with surrounding interstitial to diffuse dermal neutrophilic inflammation. We postulate that diffuse dermal nutrophilic infiltrates in association with thrombogenic vasculopathy is an unusual histologic picture of tick bite reactions that may be attributable to remnant tick parts. [source] Mediterranean spotted fever: Presentation with pancytopeniaAMERICAN JOURNAL OF HEMATOLOGY, Issue 8 2006Atilla Ozkan No abstract is available for this article. [source] Fatal Mediterranean spotted fever in GreeceCLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION, Issue 6 2010A. Papa Clin Microbiol Infect 2010; 16: 589,592 Abstract Forty-five days after the first confirmed and fatal Crimean,Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) case in Greece in 2008, a female patient with similar signs and symptoms (high fever, thrombocytopaenia) and resident of the same area, was admitted to the University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis. Before admission, she had visited a local hospital where a cephalosporin was prescribed. A rash manifested over subsequent days, which was misdiagnosed as an allergy to the drug. Upon admission to the University Hospital, she was given further antibiotics, including doxycycline; a few hours later, ribavirin was added because CCHF was suspected. After the patient's death, rickettsiosis caused by Rickettsia conorii conorii (Meditteranean spotted fever; MSF) was diagnosed. Extremely high values of interleukin (IL)-1ra, IL-6, interferon-,-inducible protein-10, monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 and an absence of tumour necrosis factor-, were observed. MSF is a potentially severe and even fatal disease resembling viral haemorrhagic fevers that has to be included in the differential diagnosis of febrile syndromes combined with thrombocytopaenia, even when a tick bite is not reported, and an eschar is absent. Physicians have to be aware of MSF in patients with severe disease who are returning from the Mediterranean area. [source] Clusters of Brazilian spotted fever in São Paulo State, southeastern Brazil.CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION, Issue 2009A review of official reports, the scientific literature No abstract is available for this article. [source] Brazilian spotted fever in the paediatric age-segment in the State of São Paulo, southeastern Brazil, 2003,2006CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION, Issue 2009R. Nogueira Angerami No abstract is available for this article. [source] Assessment of a quantitative multiplex 5, nuclease real-time PCR for spotted fever and typhus group rickettsioses and Orientia tsutsugamushiCLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION, Issue 2009J. A. J. Prakash No abstract is available for this article. [source] | ||||||||||