Tick-borne relapsing fever with cutaneous eschar and radiculopathy, Ethiopia

Cristina Socolovschi; Estelle Honnorat; Paul Henri Consigny; Julie Dougados; Amélie Passeron; Philippe Parola; Didier Raoult

doi:10.1111/j.1708-8305.2012.00625.x

Tick-borne relapsing fever with cutaneous eschar and radiculopathy, Ethiopia

J Travel Med. 2012 Jul;19(4):261-3. doi: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2012.00625.x.

Authors

Cristina Socolovschi¹, Estelle Honnorat, Paul Henri Consigny, Julie Dougados, Amélie Passeron, Philippe Parola, Didier Raoult

Affiliation

¹ Unité de recherche en maladies infectieuses et tropicales emergentes UMR 6236, CNRS-IRD 198, Faculté de Médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France.

PMID: 22776391
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2012.00625.x

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.

MeSH terms

Aged
Borrelia burgdorferi* / genetics
Borrelia burgdorferi* / isolation & purification
Diagnosis, Differential
Ethiopia
Female
France
Humans
Radiculopathy / etiology
Relapsing Fever / complications
Relapsing Fever / diagnosis*
Relapsing Fever / microbiology
Skin / pathology
Travel