Central nervous system
Doxycycline
Endemic
Murine typhus
Rickettsia
Journal
IDCases
ISSN: 2214-2509
Titre abrégé: IDCases
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101634540
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2020
2020
Historique:
received:
15
03
2020
revised:
27
05
2020
accepted:
27
05
2020
entrez:
9
6
2020
pubmed:
9
6
2020
medline:
9
6
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
A 39 year-old male was residing along the south coast of Texas, the USA, presented with fever, myalgias, headaches, and weight loss for ten days. Symptoms and manifestations progressed to include nuchal rigidity, photophobia, hyponatremia, thrombocytopenia, and transaminitis despite the intravenous administration of ceftriaxone and azithromycin. A lumbar puncture performed in the Emergency Department yielded pleocytosis and glucose cerebrospinal fluid/serum ratio of 0.35, suggestive of meningoencephalitis. Conglomerate data raised the suspicion of meningitis secondary to a zoonotic acquired infection, which was later confirmed to be
Identifiants
pubmed: 32509531
doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00852
pii: S2214-2509(20)30160-8
pii: e00852
pmc: PMC7265057
doi:
Types de publication
Case Reports
Langues
eng
Pagination
e00852Informations de copyright
© 2020 The Author(s).
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