A Case of Laboratory-acquired Murine Typhus

Overview

Journal Korean J Intern Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 1990 Jul 1

PMID 2098096

Citations 4

Authors

J H Woo

J Y Cho

Y S Kim

D H Choi

N M Lee

K W Choe

W H Chang

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Abstract

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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