%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Mediannikov, Oleg
%A Fenollar, F.
%A Bassene, H.
%A Tall, A.
%A Sokhna, Cheikh
%A Trape, Jean-François
%A Raoult, Didier
%T Description of "yaaf", the vesicular fever caused by acute Rickettsia felis infection in Senegal
%D 2013
%L fdi:010060895
%G ENG
%J Journal of Infection
%@ 0163-4453
%K Vesicular fever ; Rickettsia felis ; Senegal ; Primary infection
%K SENEGAL
%M ISI:000318397000009
%N 6
%P 536-540
%R 10.1016/j.jinf.2012.10.005
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010060895
%> https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2013/06/010060895.pdf
%V 66
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X Rickettsiosis caused by Rickettsia felis is an emerging infection in Africa and may account for 3-4% of ambulatory febrile fevers. We report herein a case of R. felis infection, for which we propose the name "yaaf", meaning vesicle, in an 8-month-old girl who was diagnosed in the field by real-time PCR analysis of a skin lesion; these PCR analysis was performed at a local experimental point-of-care laboratory. The clinical presentation was polymorphous skin lesions, including papules, vesicles, erosions and ulcers. The patient did not produce antibodies against Rickettsia. We suggest that this disease may be a primary infection caused by R. felis.
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