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Images in clinical medicine: African tick-bite fever after a game-hunting expedition
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Images in clinical medicine: African tick-bite fever after a game-hunting expedition
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Abstract
A 15-year-old girl was admitted to the hospital with a persistent fever, headache, and myalgia. A solitary, painful, black, crusted ulcer with a peripheral erythematous halo was noted in the left popliteal fossa; the ulcer had begun as an asymptomatic erythematous papule 1 week previously.
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