Rickettsia parkeri infection after tick bite, Virginia

Emerg Infect Dis. 2007 Feb;13(2):334-6. doi: 10.3201/eid1302.061295.

Abstract

We describe a man with a febrile illness and an eschar that developed at the site of a tick bite. Rickettsia parkeri was detected and isolated from the eschar. This report represents the second documented case of R. parkeri rickettsiosis in a US serviceman in eastern Virginia.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
  • Bites and Stings / complications
  • Bites and Stings / microbiology*
  • DNA, Bacterial / isolation & purification
  • Doxycycline / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Rickettsia Infections / drug therapy
  • Rickettsia Infections / etiology
  • Rickettsia Infections / microbiology*
  • Rickettsia Infections / pathology
  • Tick-Borne Diseases / drug therapy
  • Tick-Borne Diseases / etiology
  • Tick-Borne Diseases / microbiology*
  • Ticks / microbiology*
  • Virginia

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • DNA, Bacterial
  • Doxycycline