Images in clinical medicine: African tick-bite fever after a game-hunting expedition.
A 15-year-old girl was admitted to the hospital with a persistent fever, headache, and myalgia. A solitary, painful, black, crusted ulcer with a peripheral erythematous halo was noted in the left popliteal fossa; the ulcer had begun as an asymptomatic erythematous papule 1 week previously.
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX adelaide.a.hebert@uth.tmc.edu.
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D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011998:Recreation; D012281:Rickettsia / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012282:Rickettsia Infections / Q000473:pathology*; D012883:Skin Ulcer / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology*; D013019:South Africa; D014195:Travel