Tick paralysis by Ixodes holocyclus in a Japanese traveler returning from Australia associated with Rickettsia helvetica infection

J Travel Med. 2003 Jan-Feb;10(1):61-3. doi: 10.2310/7060.2003.30581.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antibodies, Bacterial / blood*
  • Australia
  • Bites and Stings / pathology*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Fluoroimmunoassay
  • Humans
  • Ixodes*
  • Japan
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Rickettsia / immunology*
  • Rickettsia Infections / complications
  • Rickettsia Infections / diagnosis*
  • Scalp
  • Tick Paralysis / complications
  • Tick Paralysis / diagnosis*
  • Travel*

Substances

  • Antibodies, Bacterial