boutonneuse fever

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Noun1.boutonneuse fever - a disease (common in India and around the Mediterranean area) caused by a rickettsia that is transmitted to humans by a reddish brown tick (ixodid) that lives on dogs and other mammalsboutonneuse fever - a disease (common in India and around the Mediterranean area) caused by a rickettsia that is transmitted to humans by a reddish brown tick (ixodid) that lives on dogs and other mammals
Indian tick fever, Kenya fever, Marseilles fever
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Etudes epidemiologiques et experimentales sur la fievre boutonneuse, faites a l'Institut Pasteur d'Athenes.
Repartition geographique actuelle de la fievre boutonneuse. Mars Med.
Historical reports of MSF * Year Discovery Authors ([dagger]) 1910 Description of the "fievre boutonneuse Conor and Bruch de Tunisia" (7 cases) 1925 Description of a cluster of MSF (8 Olmer cases) in Marseille, France, during the summer 1927 Description of the inoculation Boinet and Pieri eschar, the tache noire (black spot).
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