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Borreliosis: A rare and alternative diagnosis in travellers’ febrile illness
- Source :
- Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease. 5:247-250
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2007.
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Abstract
- Summary We report a case of borreliosis mimicking uncomplicated malaria in a patient returning from Mali. Identification of spirochetes through examination of a thick blood smear completed by an acridine-orange quantitative buffy coat allowed the diagnosis of borreliosis. All symptoms rapidly resolved following tetracycline therapy. Epidemiological and clinical features of borreliosis, diagnostic tools and management are discussed.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics
Fever
Buffy coat
Mali
Diagnostic tools
Uncomplicated malaria
Diagnosis, Differential
parasitic diseases
Epidemiology
medicine
Humans
Travel
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Febrile illness
Middle Aged
Tetracycline
medicine.disease
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Malaria
Infectious Diseases
Blood smear
Immunology
France
Borrelia Infections
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14778939
- Volume :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e7128b7bdaed730a35d64608884d2c7f