TY - JOUR AU - Fournier, Pierre-Edouard AU - Grunnenberger, Fabienne AU - Jaulhac, Benoît AU - Gastinger, Geneviève AU - Raoult, Didier T1 - Evidence of Infection in Humans with Rickettsia helvetica in Eastern France T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2000 VL - 6 IS - 4 SP - 389 SN - 1080-6059 AB - A 37-year-old man living in eastern France seroconverted to Rickettsia helvetica in August 1997, 4 weeks after the onset of an unexplained febrile illness. Results of a serosurvey of forest workers from the area where the patient lived showed a 9.2% seroprevalence against R. helvetica. This organism may pose a threat for populations exposed to Ixodes ricinus ticks. KW - Rickettsia Helvetica KW - R. Helvetica KW - Ixodes ricinus KW - spotted fever KW - rickettsiae KW - bacilli KW - rickettsioses KW - France DO - 10.3201/eid0604.000412 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/6/4/00-0412_article ER - End of Reference