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Intra-aural tick bite causing unilateral facial nerve palsy in 29 cases over 16 years in Kandy, Sri Lanka: is rickettsial aetiology possible?

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Published Online: 2018-08-22

Published Print: 2018-12

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Kularatne, Senanayake A. M.

Fernando, Ranjan

Selvaratnam, Sinnadurai

Narampanawa, Chandrasiri

Weerakoon, Kosala

Wickramasinghe, Sujanthe

Pathirage, Manoji

Weerasinghe, Vajira

Bandara, Anura

Rajapakse, Jayanthe
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Received: 8 April 2018

Accepted: 17 August 2018

First Online: 22 August 2018

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: Publication of this work was granted ethics clearance by the Ethics review committee, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. All study participants were adults and informed written consent was obtained from all participants.

: Informed written consent for publishing the photographs (shown in Fig.) was directly obtained from the patient.

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