A Case of Laboratory-Acquired Murine Typhus

We encountered a 32-year-old Korean woman who developed murine typhus in a laboratory. She worked as a technician in a laboratory for rickettsial disease. Immunofluorescence test with rickettsial antigen (R. typhi) was positive at 1 : 320 on admission and 1 : 1280 after 4 weeks. A dose of 200 mg of...

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Autores principales: Woo, Jun Hee, Cho, Joo Young, Kim, Young Sun, Choi, Doo Hong, Lee, Nam Min, Choe, Kang Won, Chang, Woo Hyun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Association of Internal Medicine 1990
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4535010/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2098096
http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.1990.5.2.118
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author Woo, Jun Hee
Cho, Joo Young
Kim, Young Sun
Choi, Doo Hong
Lee, Nam Min
Choe, Kang Won
Chang, Woo Hyun
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description We encountered a 32-year-old Korean woman who developed murine typhus in a laboratory. She worked as a technician in a laboratory for rickettsial disease. Immunofluorescence test with rickettsial antigen (R. typhi) was positive at 1 : 320 on admission and 1 : 1280 after 4 weeks. A dose of 200 mg of doxycycline for 7 days proved to be effective for her condition.
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spelling pubmed-45350102015-10-02 A Case of Laboratory-Acquired Murine Typhus Woo, Jun Hee Cho, Joo Young Kim, Young Sun Choi, Doo Hong Lee, Nam Min Choe, Kang Won Chang, Woo Hyun Korean J Intern Med Case Report We encountered a 32-year-old Korean woman who developed murine typhus in a laboratory. She worked as a technician in a laboratory for rickettsial disease. Immunofluorescence test with rickettsial antigen (R. typhi) was positive at 1 : 320 on admission and 1 : 1280 after 4 weeks. A dose of 200 mg of doxycycline for 7 days proved to be effective for her condition. Korean Association of Internal Medicine 1990-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4535010/ /pubmed/2098096 http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.1990.5.2.118 Text en Copyright © 1990 The Korean Association of Internal Medicine 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 noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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