Rickettsial Infection in the COVID-19 Era: The Correlation Between the Detection of in Ticks and Storytelling Photography of a Presumable Human Rickettsiosis Case

Overview

Journal Microorganisms

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2023 Nov 25

PMID 38004657

Authors

Donato Antonio Raele

Maria Assunta Cafiero

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Abstract

infection is an emerging human tick-borne disease with only a few recorded cases. We reported a presumable autochthonous case of rickettsiosis in an Italian cattle breeder associated with a bite. DNA was detected in both the tick specimen from the patient and the grazing cattle close to his farm.

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