A case of spotted fever group rickettsiosis imported into the United Kingdom and treated with ciprofloxacin: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Spotted fever group rickettsioses are an interesting group of infections, which are increasing in incidence worldwide. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we describe an imported case to the United Kingdom occurring in a patient who had recently visited Kruger National Park in South Africa – a hig...

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Autores principales: Rashid, Rifat, Pasqualotto, Alessandro C, Denning, David W
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2358909/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18387179
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-98
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author Rashid, Rifat
Pasqualotto, Alessandro C
Denning, David W
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Denning, David W
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description INTRODUCTION: Spotted fever group rickettsioses are an interesting group of infections, which are increasing in incidence worldwide. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we describe an imported case to the United Kingdom occurring in a patient who had recently visited Kruger National Park in South Africa – a highly endemic area for Rickettsia infections. Initial treatment with doxycycline failed but the patient made a prompt recovery after commencement of ciprofloxacin. CONCLUSION: This finding raises the possibility that there are resistant strains of Rickettsia present.
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spelling pubmed-23589092008-04-29 A case of spotted fever group rickettsiosis imported into the United Kingdom and treated with ciprofloxacin: a case report Rashid, Rifat Pasqualotto, Alessandro C Denning, David W J Med Case Reports Case Report INTRODUCTION: Spotted fever group rickettsioses are an interesting group of infections, which are increasing in incidence worldwide. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we describe an imported case to the United Kingdom occurring in a patient who had recently visited Kruger National Park in South Africa – a highly endemic area for Rickettsia infections. Initial treatment with doxycycline failed but the patient made a prompt recovery after commencement of ciprofloxacin. CONCLUSION: This finding raises the possibility that there are resistant strains of Rickettsia present. BioMed Central 2008-04-03 /pmc/articles/PMC2358909/ /pubmed/18387179 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-98 Text en Copyright © 2008 Rashid et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pasqualotto, Alessandro C
Denning, David W
A case of spotted fever group rickettsiosis imported into the United Kingdom and treated with ciprofloxacin: a case report
title A case of spotted fever group rickettsiosis imported into the United Kingdom and treated with ciprofloxacin: a case report
title_full A case of spotted fever group rickettsiosis imported into the United Kingdom and treated with ciprofloxacin: a case report
title_fullStr A case of spotted fever group rickettsiosis imported into the United Kingdom and treated with ciprofloxacin: a case report
title_full_unstemmed A case of spotted fever group rickettsiosis imported into the United Kingdom and treated with ciprofloxacin: a case report
title_short A case of spotted fever group rickettsiosis imported into the United Kingdom and treated with ciprofloxacin: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2358909/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18387179
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-98
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