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Volume 6, Number 4—August 2000
Dispatch

Evidence of Infection in Humans with Rickettsia helvetica in Eastern France

Pierre-Edouard Fournier*, Fabienne Grunnenberger†, Benoît Jaulhac‡, Geneviève Gastinger§, and Didier Raoult*Comments to Author 

Author affiliations: *Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France; †Hopital de Hautepierre, Strasbourg, France; ‡Faculté de Médecine, Strasbourg, France; and §Mutualité Sociale Agricole du Bas-Rhin, Strasbourg, France

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Figure 1

Map of Europe showing the distribution of Ixodes ricinus (1). The areas where I. ricinus is prevalent are shaded in black and the prevalence of R. helvetica in I. ricinus, where estimated, is indicated.

Figure 1. Map of Europe showing the distribution of Ixodes ricinus (1). The areas where I. ricinus is prevalent are shaded in black and the prevalence of R. helvetica in I. ricinus, where estimated, is indicated.

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