Japanese spotted fever with post-infectious encephalitis

Japanese spotted fever (JSF) is a rickettsial disease caused by Rickettsia japonica. To the best of our knowledge, there have only been five reported cases of JSF involving the central nervous system. A 74-year-old man was admitted after 1 week of fever and maculopapular rash. JSF was definitively d...

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Autores principales: Wada, Takafumi, Mori, Hitoshi, Kida, Kouji, Shindo, Katsuro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9763843/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36561293
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2022.e01658
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Mori, Hitoshi
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description Japanese spotted fever (JSF) is a rickettsial disease caused by Rickettsia japonica. To the best of our knowledge, there have only been five reported cases of JSF involving the central nervous system. A 74-year-old man was admitted after 1 week of fever and maculopapular rash. JSF was definitively diagnosed by PCR; however, the patient showed mental disturbance and abnormal behavior. After intravenous immunoglobulin, his mental state and behavior improved. The findings of cerebrospinal fluid analysis, electroencephalography, and (99 m)TcHM-PAO single photon computed emission tomography suggested post-infectious encephalitis. JSF causes post-infectious encephalitis and early treatment is recommended.
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spelling pubmed-97638432022-12-21 Japanese spotted fever with post-infectious encephalitis Wada, Takafumi Mori, Hitoshi Kida, Kouji Shindo, Katsuro IDCases Case Report Japanese spotted fever (JSF) is a rickettsial disease caused by Rickettsia japonica. To the best of our knowledge, there have only been five reported cases of JSF involving the central nervous system. A 74-year-old man was admitted after 1 week of fever and maculopapular rash. JSF was definitively diagnosed by PCR; however, the patient showed mental disturbance and abnormal behavior. After intravenous immunoglobulin, his mental state and behavior improved. The findings of cerebrospinal fluid analysis, electroencephalography, and (99 m)TcHM-PAO single photon computed emission tomography suggested post-infectious encephalitis. JSF causes post-infectious encephalitis and early treatment is recommended. Elsevier 2022-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9763843/ /pubmed/36561293 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2022.e01658 Text en © 2022 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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