Pierre Edouard FournierCaroline AllombertYupin SupputamongkolGiuseppe CarusoPhilippe BrouquiDidier RaoultFaculte de Medecine de Marseille Universite de la MediterraneeMahidol UniversityOspedale Policlinico San Martino2018-07-242018-07-242004-02-01Journal of Clinical Microbiology. Vol.42, No.2 (2004), 816-818009511372-s2.0-1242269299https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/21740We report that eight patients from France, Italy, and Thailand had serological evidence of Rickettsia helvetica infection. The infection presented as a mild disease in the warm season and was associated with fever, headache, and myalgia but not with a cutaneous rash. R. helvetica should be suspected in patients with unexplained fever, especially following a bite from an Ixodes sp. tick.Mahidol UniversityMedicineArticleSCOPUS10.1128/JCM.42.2.816-818.2004