Rickettsia parkeri infection after tick bite, Virginia
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Volume 13, No. 2, Year 2007
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We describe a man with a febrile illness and an eschar that developed at the site of a tick bite. Rickettsia parkeri was detected and isolated from the eschar. This report represents the second documented case of R. parkeri rickettsiosis in a US serviceman in eastern Virginia.