Electron-microscopic examination of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi-infected human liver

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 242-248

  Pongponratn, Emsri ^a   Maneerat, Yaowapa ^a   Chaisri, Urai ^a   Wilairatana, Polrat ^b   Punpoowong, Benjanee ^a   Viriyavejakul, Parnpen ^a   Riganti, Mario ^a  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Liver; Rickettsia tsutsugamushi; Scrub typhus; Ultrastructural study

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER DISEASE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; RICKETTSIOSIS; SCRUB TYPHUS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; SCRUB TYPHUS;

ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0031959368     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1998.00231.x     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Brown GW (1988) Scrub Typhus: Pathogenesis and Clinical Syndrome: In Biology of Rickettsial Diseases, Vol. 1 (ed. DH Walker), CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp. 93-100.
2. Burgdorfer W, Anacke RL, Bird RC, & Bertram DS (1968) Intranuclear growth of Rickettsia rickettsii. Journal of Bacteriology 96, 1415-1418.
3. Chayakul P, Panich V & Silpapojakul K (1988) Scrub typhus pneumonitis: an entity which is frequently missed. Quarterly Journal of Medicine 256, 595-602.
4. Chien RN, Liu NJ, Lin PY & Liaw YF (1995) Case report: Granulomatous hepatitis associated with scrub typhus. Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatotogy 10, 484-487.
5. Hsu GJ, Young T, Peng MY et al. (1993) Acute renal failure associated with scrub typhus: report of a case. Journal of the Formosan Medical Association 92, 475-477.
6. Ng FKP, Oaks SC, Lee M, Groves MC, & Lewis GE (1985) A scanning and transmission electron microscopic examination of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi-infected human endothelial, MRC-S, and L-929 cells. Japanese Journal of Medical Science and Biology 38, 125-139.
7. Sande MA & Mandell GL (1988) Antimicrobial agents: Tetracyclines, chloramphenicol, erythromycin, and miscellaneous antibacterial agents. In The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, vol. 2, 8th edn (eds. AG Gilman et al.), McCraw-Hill, New York, pp. 1117-1125.
8. Sheehan DC & Hrapchak BB (1980) Microorganisms: In Theory and practice of histotechnology 2nd edn (eds. DC Sheehan & BB Hrapchak), Battelle Press, Columbus, pp. 233-251.
9. Silpapojakul K, Ukkachoke C, Krisanapan S et al. (1991) Rickettsial meningitis and encephalitis. Archives of International Medicine 151, 1753-1757.
10. Silverman DJ & Wisseman CL (1978) Comparative ultrastructural study on the cell envelopes of Rickettsia prowazekii, Rickettsia rickettsii, and Rickettsia tsutsugamushi. Infection and Immunity 21, 1020-1023.
11. Tamiya T (1962) Electron microscopic studies of Rickettsia orientalis: In Recent Advances in Studies of Tsutsugamushi Disease in Japan (ed. T Tamiya), Medical Culture Inc., Tokyo, pp. 145-156.
12. Uchiyama T & Uchida T (1988) Ultrastructural study on Japanese isolates of spotted fever group Rickettsiae. Microbiology and Immunology 32, 1163-1166.
13. Urakami H, Tsuruhara T & Tamura A (1982) Intranuclear Rickettsia tsutsugamushi in cultured mouse fibroblasts (L cells). Microbiology and Immunology 26, 445-447.
14. Wisseman CL (1991) Bacterial Infections Section A: Rickettsial Infections: In Hunter's Tropical Medicine, 7th edn (ed. CH Strickland), W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, pp. 256-281.
15. Yang CH, Hsu GJ, Peng MY & Young TG (1995) Hepatic dysfunction in scrub typhus. Journal of the Formosan Medical Association 94, 101-105.
16. Yotsukura Aoki N, Fukuzumi N et al. (1991) Review of a case of tsutsugamushi disease showing myocarditis and confirmation of Rickettsia by endomyocarditis biopsy. Japanese Circulation Journal 55, 149-153.
17. Zimmerman HJ & Lewis JH (1984) Hepatic toxicity of antimicrobial agents: In Contemporary Issues of infectious Diseases, Vol 1, New Dimensions in Antimicrobial Therapy (eds. RK Root & MA Sande), Churchill Livingstone, New York, pp. 153-202.