Case report: Severe typhus group rickettsiosis complicated by pulmonary edema in a returning traveler from Indonesia

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1121-1123

  Stockdale, Alexander J ^a   Weekes, Michael P ^a   Kiely, Bridget ^a   Lever, Andrew M L ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL; CEFTRIAXONE; CLARITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEVER; HUMAN; INDONESIA; LUNG EDEMA; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALARIA; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; RICKETTSIA; TRAVEL; TREATMENT DURATION; TYPHUS;

ADULT; HUMANS; INDONESIA; MALE; PULMONARY EDEMA; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; TRAVEL; TYPHUS, ENDEMIC FLEA-BORNE;

EID: 83255164203     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2011.11-0340     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Jensenius M, Davis X, von Sonnenburg F, Schwartz E, Keystone JS, Leder K, Lopéz-Véléz R, Caumes E, Cramer JP, Chen L, Parola P, 2009. GeoSentinel Surveillance Network. Multicenter GeoSentinel analysis of rickettsial diseases in international travelers, 1996-2008. Emerg Infect Dis 15: 1791-1798.
2. Dumler JS, Taylor JP, Walker DH, 1991. Clinical and laboratory features of murine typhus in south Texas, 1980 through 1987. JAMA 266: 1365-1370.
3. Civen R, Ngo V, 2008. Murine typhus: an unrecognized suburban vectorborne disease. Clin Infect Dis 46: 913-918. (Pubitemid 351417198)
4. La Scola B, Rydkina L, Ndihokubwayo JB, Vene S, Raoult D, 2000. Serological differentiation of murine typhus and epidemic typhus using cross-adsorption and Western blotting. Clin Diagn Lab Immunol 7: 612-616. (Pubitemid 30463222)
5. Bernabeu-Wittel M, Pachón J, Alarcón A, López-Cortés LF, Viciana P, Jiménez-Mejías ME, Villanueva JL, Torronteras R, Caballero-Granado FJ, 1999. Murine typhus as a common cause of fever of intermediate duration: a 17-year study in the south of Spain. Arch Intern Med 159: 872-876. (Pubitemid 29200315)
6. Fergie JE, Purcell K, Wanat D, 2000. Murine typhus in South Texas children. Pediatr Infect Dis J 19: 535-538. (Pubitemid 30409481)
7. Gikas A, Doukakis S, Pediaditis J, Kastanakis S, Psaroulaki A, Tselentis Y, 2002. Murine typhus in Greece: epidemiological, clinical, and therapeutic data from 83 cases. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 96: 250-253. (Pubitemid 34785057)
8. Lai CH, Huang CK, Weng HC, Chung HC, Liang SH, Lin JN, Lin CW, Hsu CY, Lin HH, 2008. Clinical characteristics of acute Q fever, scrub typhus, and murine typhus with delayed defervescence despite doxycycline treatment. Am J Trop Med Hyg 79: 441-446.
9. Angelakis E, Botelho E, Socolovschi C, Sobas CR, Piketty C, Parola P, Raoult D, 2010. Murine typhus as a cause of fever in travelers from Tunisia and Mediterranean areas. J Travel Med 17: 310-315.
10. Azad AF, Beard CB, 1998. Rickettsial pathogens and their arthropod vectors. Emerg Infect Dis 4: 179-186. (Pubitemid 28311204)
11. Hendershot EF, Sexton DJ, 2009. Scrub typhus and rickettsial diseases in international travelers: a review. Curr Infect Dis Rep 11: 66-72.
12. Adjemian J, Parks S, McElroy K, Campbell J, Eremeeva ME, Nicholson WL, McQuiston J, Taylor J, 2010. Murine typhus in Austin, Texas, USA, 2008. Emerg Infect Dis 16: 412-417.
13. Hernández Cabrera M, Angel-Moreno A, Santana E, Bolaños M, Francès A, Martín-Sánchez MS, Pérez-Arellano JL, 2004. Murine typhus with renal involvement in Canary Islands, Spain. Emerg Infect Dis 10: 740-743. (Pubitemid 38420315)
14. Silpapojakul K, Chayakul P, Krisanapan S, Silpapojakul K, 1993. Murine typhus in Thailand: clinical features, diagnosis and treatment. Q J Med 86: 43-47. (Pubitemid 23120802)
15. Whiteford SF, Taylor JP, Dumler JS, 2001. Clinical, laboratory, and epidemiologic features of murine typhus in 97 Texas children. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 155: 396-400. (Pubitemid 32199189)