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<i>Rickettsia parkeri</i>Infection after Tick Bite, Virginia

Timothy J. Whitman, Allen L. Richards, Christopher D. Paddock, Cindy Tamminga, Patrick J. Sniezek, Ju Jiang, David K. Byers, John W. Sanders

Emerging infectious diseases · 2007 · 106 citations · 5 references

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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.

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