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
disease - an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning
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This study was supported by the Hospital Clinical Research Program from the French Health Ministry (Recherche de Proteines Candidates a la Mise au Point d'un Vaccin par Etude de la Transcription de Rickettsia conorii chez l'Homme au Cours de la Fievre Boutonneuse Mediterraneenne) (2004).
Identification of rickettsial infections by using cutaneous swab specimens and PCR
Transmission experimentale de la fievre boutonneuse par Rhipicephalus sanguineus.
Etudes epidemiologiques et experimentales sur la fievre boutonneuse, faites a l'Institut Pasteur d'Athenes.
Questions on Mediterranean spotted fever a century after its discovery

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