Literature DB >> 11952082

Rickettsia typhi infection presenting as subacute meningitis.

Emmanouil Galanakis1, Achilleas Gikas, Maria Bitsori, Stelios Sbyrakis.   

Abstract

We report two children with Rickettsia typhi infection presenting with mild central nervous system manifestations and pleocytosis in cerebrospinal fluid. Murine typhus should be included in the differential diagnosis of meningoencephalitis in children who are residents of endemic areas.

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Year:  2002        PMID: 11952082     DOI: 10.1177/088307380201700217

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Child Neurol        ISSN: 0883-0738            Impact factor:   1.987


  5 in total

Review 1.  Case Report: Fulminant Murine Typhus Presenting with Status Epilepticus and Multi-Organ Failure: an Autopsy Case and a Review of the Neurologic Presentations of Murine Typhus.

Authors:  Benjamin E Stephens; Meilinh Thi; Rahaf Alkhateb; Apeksha Agarwal; Francis E Sharkey; Christopher Dayton; Gregory M Anstead
Journal:  Am J Trop Med Hyg       Date:  2018-06-21       Impact factor: 2.345

2.  Murine typhus in southern Taiwan during 1992-2009.

Authors:  Ko Chang; Yen-Hsu Chen; Nan-Yao Lee; Hsin-Chun Lee; Chun-Yu Lin; Jih-Jin Tsai; Po-Liang Lu; Tun-Chieh Chen; Hsiao-Chen Hsieh; Wei-Ru Lin; Ping-Chang Lai; Chia-Ming Chang; Chi-Jung Wu; Chung-Hsu Lai; Wen-Chien Ko
Journal:  Am J Trop Med Hyg       Date:  2012-07       Impact factor: 2.345

3.  Murine typhus in Cyprus: 21 paediatric cases.

Authors:  M Koliou; A Psaroulaki; C Georgiou; I Ioannou; Y Tselentis; A Gikas
Journal:  Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis       Date:  2007-07       Impact factor: 3.267

Review 4.  Rickettsial infections of the central nervous system.

Authors:  Zuzana Sekeyová; Monika Danchenko; Peter Filipčík; Pierre Edouard Fournier
Journal:  PLoS Negl Trop Dis       Date:  2019-08-29

5.  Delayed correlation between the incidence rate of indigenous murine typhus in humans and the seropositive rate of Rickettsia typhi infection in small mammals in Taiwan from 2007-2019.

Authors:  Pai-Shan Chiang; Shin-Wei Su; Su-Lin Yang; Pei-Yun Shu; Wang-Ping Lee; Shu-Ying Li; Hwa-Jen Teng
Journal:  PLoS Negl Trop Dis       Date:  2022-04-25
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