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Flinders Island spotted fever: a newly recognised endemic focus of tick typhus in Bass Strait: Part 1. Clinical and epidemiological features
Author(s) -
Stewart Robert S
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1991.tb120993.x
Subject(s) - myalgia , epidemiology , tick , dermatology , population , rash , spotted fever , medicine , maculopapular rash , skin lesion , veterinary medicine , virology , pathology , immunology , rickettsia , virus , environmental health
Twenty six cases of a spottedfever‐like illness have been identified over a 17year period In the population of about 1000 of Flinders Island, Tasmania. The usual features were a fever, headache, myalgia, slight cough, arthralgia without joint swelling and a maCUlopapular rash which did not resemble the common exanthems. Twelve cases had a focal skin lesion. Available evidence implicates ticks as the vector.