Myositis in a Child with Murine Typhus

A 12-year-old boy presented with fever, lower extremity pain and weakness. Examination revealed paraparesis, thigh and calf tenderness. Labs showed high creatinine phosphokinase and Rickettsia typhi titers. This case illustrates endemic typhus should be considered in the differential diagnosis of my...

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Autores principales: Seshadri, Sheshashree, Fergie, Jaime
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3987245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24757508
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/idr.2014.5145
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description A 12-year-old boy presented with fever, lower extremity pain and weakness. Examination revealed paraparesis, thigh and calf tenderness. Labs showed high creatinine phosphokinase and Rickettsia typhi titers. This case illustrates endemic typhus should be considered in the differential diagnosis of myositis especially in areas with high prevalence of the disease. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of myositis and paraparesis associated with a case of murine typhus.
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spelling pubmed-39872452014-04-22 Myositis in a Child with Murine Typhus Seshadri, Sheshashree Fergie, Jaime Infect Dis Rep Case Report A 12-year-old boy presented with fever, lower extremity pain and weakness. Examination revealed paraparesis, thigh and calf tenderness. Labs showed high creatinine phosphokinase and Rickettsia typhi titers. This case illustrates endemic typhus should be considered in the differential diagnosis of myositis especially in areas with high prevalence of the disease. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of myositis and paraparesis associated with a case of murine typhus. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2014-02-14 /pmc/articles/PMC3987245/ /pubmed/24757508 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/idr.2014.5145 Text en ©Copyright S. Seshadri and J. Fergie http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Myositis in a Child with Murine Typhus
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3987245/
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