TIBOLA: an emergent disease caused by tick bite
Felicidad Sanantonio Valdearcosa, MC Otero Reigadab
aPediatra. CS Vilamarxant. Valencia. España.
bServicio de Pediatría. Hospital Universitario La Fe. Valencia. España.
Correspondence: F Sanantonio. E-mail: feli1855@gmail.com
Reference of this article: Sanantonio Valdearcos F, Otero Reigada MC. TIBOLA: an emergent disease caused by tick bite. Rev Pediatr Aten Primaria. 2015;17:e193-e195.
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Abstract
Tick-borne diseases are rare in our environment. We describe a case of tick-borne lymphadenopathy (TIBOLA), an emergent disease caused by Rickettsia slovaca. The patients have a necrotic eschar on the scalp, at the site of a bite, fever and multiple occipital and/or cervical lymphadenopathies. The medium duration of incubation since the bite is seven days.
In the case of a patient with cervical adenitis and history of tick bite and/or eschar scalp, the diagnosis of TIBOLA is the most common.
Keywords
● Rickettsia slovaca ● TIBOLA ● Tick bites
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