Spotting the spotted fever

Volume: 39 Issue: 2

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Case Report

Spotting the spotted fever

Vikneswari Karthiga Serane¹, Jothimani Pradeep², Selvaraj Stephen³, Palanisamy Soundararajan⁴

¹Department of Pediatrics and 2 Department of Microbiology, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute, Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth (SBV) Deemed-to be- University, Puducherry, India

Corresponding author: Selvaraj Stephen. Email: [email protected]

Year: 2019, Page: 369-371, Doi: https://doi.org/10.51248/v39i2.23

Abstract

With a surge in rickettsial infections in our country, there is an apparent necessity to upgrade the laboratory expertise to detect the same. We were able to arrive at a diagnosis of rickettsial Spotted fever in a child who presented with fever and rash with the support of appropriate investigations.

Keywords: Indian tick typhus; immunofluorescence assay; Rickettsia conorii; Weil-Felix reactions; enzyme linked immunosorbent assay.

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Vikneswari Karthiga Serane, Jothimani Pradeep, Selvaraj Stephen, Palanisamy Soundararajan. Spotting the spotted fever. Biomedicine: 2019; 39(2): 369- 371

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