Visual loss in a returning traveller with tick typhus.
Rickettsial diseases are increasingly found world-wide and should be considered in febrile patients returning from abroad. This case report describes the vasculitic complications of a patient returning from the Republic of South Africa with tick typhus.
Department of Infection and Tropical Diseases, Ruchill Hospital, Glasgow.
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D000328:Adult; D001766:Blindness / Q000209:etiology*; D001907:Boutonneuse Fever / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012606:Scotland; D013019:South Africa; D014195:Travel; D014794:Visual Fields