Spotted Fever After Safari and the Value of an Eschar Swab

Aoife Boyle¹, Catherine Uhomoibhi², Siân Tiley³, Aoife Cotter^{2

4}, Fergal J Moloney^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Dermatology, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
² Department of Infectious Diseases, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
³ Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory, UKHSA Porton Down Salisbury Wiltshire, Salisbury, UK.
⁴ UCD School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

Case Reports

Aoife Boyle et al. Australas J Dermatol. 2025 Sep.

. 2025 Sep;66(6):e369-e370.

doi: 10.1111/ajd.14551. Epub 2025 Jun 16.

Aoife Boyle¹, Catherine Uhomoibhi², Siân Tiley³, Aoife Cotter^{2

4}, Fergal J Moloney^{1

4}

¹ Department of Dermatology, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
² Department of Infectious Diseases, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
³ Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory, UKHSA Porton Down Salisbury Wiltshire, Salisbury, UK.
⁴ UCD School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

No abstract available

Keywords: eschar; infection; lymph node; medical dermatology; microbiology.

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