title: Tick-borne relapsing fever with cutaneous eschar and radiculopathy, Ethiopia.
abstract: We report the first confirmed case of tick-borne borreliosis by molecular tools in a French traveler returning from Ethiopia with unusual presentation: the presence of cutaneous eschar after a hard tick-bite suggesting firstly to clinicians a diagnosis of tick-borne rickettsiosis.
authors: Unité de recherche en maladies infectieuses et tropicales emergentes UMR 6236, CNRS-IRD 198, Faculté de Médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France.
authors: Cristina
authors: C
authors: Socolovschi
authors: Estelle
authors: E
authors: Honnorat
authors: Paul Henri
authors: PH
authors: Consigny
authors: Julie
authors: J
authors: Dougados
authors: Amélie
authors: A
authors: Passeron
authors: Philippe
authors: P
authors: Parola
authors: Didier
authors: D
authors: Raoult
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D025065:Borrelia burgdorferi / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005002:Ethiopia; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D011843:Radiculopathy / Q000209:etiology; D012061:Relapsing Fever / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology; D014195:Travel