Severe murine typhus with shock and acute respiratory failure in a Japanese traveler after returning from Thailand

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 50-53

  Sakamoto, Naoya ^a   Nakamura Uchiyama, Fukumi ^a,b   Kobayashi, Ken Ichiro ^a   Takasaki, Tomohiko ^c   Ogasawara, Yumiko ^c   Ando, Shuji ^c   Iwabuchi, Sentaro ^a   Ohnishi, Kenji ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN BOKUTOH HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFCAPENE PIVOXIL; CEFTRIAXONE; MINOCYCLINE;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD SMEAR; BREATHING RATE; CASE REPORT; COLON POLYP; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DENGUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FATIGUE; FEVER; FLUID THERAPY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; JAPANESE; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PROTEINURIA; PULSE RATE; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; RICKETTSIOSIS; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SHOCK; SPUTUM EXAMINATION; THAILAND; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRAVEL; TYPHUS; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; URINALYSIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEPHALOSPORINS; CIPROFLOXACIN; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; SHOCK; THAILAND; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYPHUS, ENDEMIC FLEA-BORNE;

EID: 84871607753     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2012.00678.x     Document Type: Article

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