[Current data on rickettsial diseases in Tunisia].
The indirect immunofluorescent technic, recommended by WHO, allows us to consider again, the problem of rickettsial diseases in Tunisia. This pathology, always actual, presents, also in epidemiological as in clinical aspect, a predominance for Mediterranean spotted fever by R. conori. Murin typhus by R. mooseri is still remained, but its incidence seems to be slight. The frequency of Q Fever must to be determined.
D000328:Adult; D001907:Boutonneuse Fever / Q000453:epidemiology; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011778:Q Fever / Q000453:epidemiology; D012282:Rickettsia Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014416:Tunisia; D014437:Typhus, Endemic Flea-Borne / Q000453:epidemiology
Données actuelles sur les rickettsioses en Tunisie.