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

J Travel Med

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

Published: July 2012

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.

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