African tick bite fever

Jakob Aaquist Johansen; Søren Thybo

African tick bite fever

Jakob Aaquist Johansen, Søren Thybo

2 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

The incident of spotted fever imported to Denmark is unknown. We present a classic case of African Tick Bite Fever (ATBF) to highlight a disease, which frequently infects wildlife enthusiasts and hunters on vacation in South Africa. ATBF has a good prognosis and is easily treated with doxycyclin. The treatment should be given upon the clinical picture alone, since antibodies only reveal half of infected cases.

Original language	English
Journal	Ugeskrift for Laeger
Volume	173
Issue number	41
Pages (from-to)	2572-2573
Number of pages	2
ISSN	0041-5782
Publication status	Published - 10 Oct 2011

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