Rickettsia parkeriInfection after Tick Bite, Virginia
Open Access
- 1 February 2007
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 13 (2), 334-336
- https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1302.061295
Abstract
We describe a man with a febrile illness and an eschar that developed at the site of a tick bite. Rickettsia parkeri was detected and isolated from the eschar. This report represents the second documented case of R. parkeri rickettsiosis in a US serviceman in eastern Virginia.Keywords
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