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CHIPANA SALINAS, Margot Rita; GRIABAL GARCIA, Manuel; SANCHEZ GALAN, Patricia  e  IBANEZ, Begoña Gregori. Black Spoin In Exantemic Mediterranean Fever. SCIENTIFICA [online]. 2014, vol.12, n.1, pp. 102-108. ISSN 1813-0054.

ABSTRACT We report the case of a 48 year oíd man with no personal or relevant medical history that progressed to clinical manifestations of Mediter-ranean Spotted Fever, with rash, fever, and black spot as classic triad, in addition to headache and muscu-loskeletal pain, caused by Rickettsia conorii confirmed by serology. Med-iterranean Spotted Fever is endemic in Spain. It is described in the sci-entific literature so me risk, alt-hough it is low, of fulminant infec-tion and múltiple organ failure (he-patic, renal, hematologic, cardiovascular and pulmonary) with high mortality. In our case, the patient improved after the administration of empirical antibiotic therapy (doxycycline).

Palavras-chave : Mediterranean spotted fever; Black Spot.