Scrub typhus meningoencephalitis occurring during doxycycline therapy for Orientia tsutsugamushi

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 271-274

  Kim, Dong Min ^a   Kim, Yoon Seong ^a   Cho, Hea Young ^b   Lee, Yong Bok ^c  

^a Chosun University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Korea Food and Drug Administration   (South Korea)

^c Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Doxycycline; Orientia tsutsugamushi; Scrub typhus

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ALMAGATE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; DOXYCYCLINE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HEMOGLOBIN; PANTOPRAZOLE; RANITIDINE;

AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEHYDRATION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEVER; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SCRUB TYPHUS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED; ALUMINUM HYDROXIDE; ANTACIDS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARBONATES; DOXYCYCLINE; HUMANS; MAGNESIUM HYDROXIDE; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; SCRUB TYPHUS;

EID: 79951877679     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2010.10.005     Document Type: Article

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