Indian tick typhus mimicking as Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: a case report

J Commun Dis. 2008 Mar;40(1):83-5.

Authors

S K Jain¹, J A Khan, Veena Mittal, Kaushal Kumar, S Venkatesh, D C Jain, Shiv Lal

Affiliation

¹ National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Delhi.

PMID: 19127676

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
Boutonneuse Fever / diagnosis*
Boutonneuse Fever / drug therapy
Boutonneuse Fever / immunology
Child, Preschool
Chloramphenicol / therapeutic use
Diagnosis, Differential
Diagnostic Errors*
Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
Humans
Immunoglobulin M
Male
Rickettsia conorii
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever / diagnosis*
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever / immunology

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Immunoglobulin M
Chloramphenicol