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A 13-year old girl with pancytopenia at the presentation of a Borrelia hispanica infection: a case report and review of the literature

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Medical Case Reports, February 2017
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Title
A 13-year old girl with pancytopenia at the presentation of a Borrelia hispanica infection: a case report and review of the literature
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Journal of Medical Case Reports, February 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13256-017-1225-3
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Irmin Leen, Peggy Bruynseels, Benoît Kabamba Mukadi, Mark van Oort, Machiel van den Akker

Abstract

It is not uncommon that a child with a febrile illness of unknown etiology is admitted to the hospital. When the complete blood count reveals a pancytopenia, the diagnostic process can be a real challenge. A 13-year girl of Arab-Berber descent presented with abdominal pain and fever after a holiday in northwestern Morocco. A complete blood count revealed a pancytopenia and blood smear test results revealed spirochetes. Borrelia hispanica was identified by sequencing the 16S ribosomal ribonucleic acid gene. Our patient was treated with tetracyclines and during this treatment we saw full clinical and hematological recovery. Borrelia hispanica is a known cause of tick-borne relapsing fever and is transmitted to humans through the bite of soft ticks of the genus Ornithodoros (Alectorobius). Although the link between tick-borne relapsing fever and thrombocytopenia has been documented, there are only a few case reports of tick-borne relapsing fever presenting with pancytopenia. To the best of our knowledge, there is no previous report of Borrelia hispanica presenting with pancytopenia.

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Unknown 21 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 24%
Student > Bachelor 4 19%
Student > Postgraduate 2 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 5%
Lecturer 1 5%
Other 4 19%
Unknown 4 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 4 19%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 3 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 14%
Immunology and Microbiology 3 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 10%
Other 2 10%
Unknown 4 19%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 August 2017.
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#12,834,101
of 22,957,478 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Medical Case Reports
#785
of 3,937 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#149,649
of 312,054 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Medical Case Reports
#14
of 94 outputs
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