TY - JOUR AU - Loarte, María Dolores Corbacho AU - Melenotte, Cléa AU - Cassir, Nadim AU - Cammilleri, Serge AU - Dory-Lautrec, Philippe AU - Raoult, Didier AU - Parola, Philippe T1 - Rickettsia mongolitimonae Encephalitis, Southern France, 2018 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 2 SP - 362 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We report a case of Rickettsia sibirica mongolitimonae infection, an emerging tickborne rickettsiosis, with associated encephalitis in a 66-year-old man. Diagnosis was rapidly confirmed by quantitative PCR obtained from an eschar swab sample. The patient was successfully treated with oral doxycycline. KW - Rickettsia mongolitimonae KW - encephalitis KW - tickborne rickettsioses KW - vector-borne infections KW - ticks KW - bacteria KW - France KW - meningitis/encephalitis DO - 10.3201/eid2602.181667 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/2/18-1667_article ER - End of Reference