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Monday, September 19, 2016
Africa
This disease is common in rural Africans, but can also be seen with travelers returning from Africa or the east Caribbean. It presents as a mild illness with headache, fever, and myalgias. Solitary or multiple eschars as shown above are common, along with regional lymphadenopathy. There may be a scant generalized rash, and uncommonly, subacute neuropathy or myocarditis.
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Scrub typhus
ReplyDeleteoh good one! i think you could be right and my case wasn't specific enough. I was going for a Rickettsial disease but Scrub typhus caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi could give similar symptoms
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Africa
This is African tick-bite fever, a Rickettsial disease caused by R. africae.
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