a new case report of acute pericarditis due to rickettsia conori , the seventh to be published in the french literature , highlights the following facts : -- the widespread distribution of fievre boutonneuse , which is to be found in a wide strip around the meditteranean basin ; -- the mechanism by which the pericardium is affected , which is probably auto-immune ; -- the criteria for the biological diagnosis of the rickettsial diseases ; -- above all , the neccessity for prolonged antibiotic therapy , however apparently benign the disease may have seemed .
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fievre boutonneuse
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rickettsial diseases