Severe Myasthenic Manifestation of Leptospirosis Associated with New Sequence Type of Leptospira Interrogans

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2019 Apr 20

PMID 31002066

Citations 5

Authors

Matthias Tomschik

Inga Koneczny

Anna-Margarita Schotta

Sebastian Scharer

Merima Smajlhodzic

Paloma Fernandes Rosenegger

Martin Bluthner

Romana Hoftberger

Fritz Zimprich

Gerold Stanek

Mateusz Markowicz

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Abstract

We report the rapid development of a myasthenic crisis as the first-time manifestation of myasthenia gravis. The symptoms developed in the course of acute leptospirosis associated with a new sequence type of Leptospira interrogans. Antibiotic treatment led to rapid amelioration of myasthenia.

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