[Acute pericarditis caused by Rickettsia conori].
A new case report of acute pericarditis due to Rickettsia conori, the seventh to be published in the French literature, highlights the following facts:--the widespread distribution of fièvre boutonneuse, which is to be found in a wide strip around the Meditteranean basin;--the mechanism by which the pericardium is affected, which is probably auto-immune;--the criteria for the biological diagnosis of the Rickettsial diseases;--above all, the neccessity for prolonged antibiotic therapy, however apparently benign the disease may have seemed.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*; D012282:Rickettsia Infections / Q000188:drug therapy; D013754:Tetracyclines / Q000627:therapeutic use
D013754:Tetracyclines
Péricardite aiguë à Rickettsia conori