Murine typhus

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Information on Typhus fevers. Provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The clinical features of two patients with serologically proven acute murine typhus with ocular involvement are presented. Both patients presented with a retinal whitening that resolved after treatment.

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 …

Etiological investigations must focus on recent travels, animal exposures, age, immunodeficiency, neurological damage characteristics, and potential extra-neurological signs. The interest of a diagnosis of encephalitis for which there is no specific treatment is also to discontinue any empirical tre …

While the whole world is focused on the risk of the coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, China, becoming a global pandemic, there is another danger lurking in the US: medieval diseases such as ty…

The typhus involved in the L.A. outbreak is known as murine typhus and can spread to people from infected feces of fleas. The feces of fleas are infected with bacteria called Rickettsia typhi, according to the CDC.

Murine typhus should be considered in the differential diagnosis of aseptic meningitis and meningoencephalitis. Early diagnosis and treatment can prevent death and long-term morbidity.

Murine typhus is a febrile systemic illness, presenting with headache and undulating fever. Neurological involvement is considered a rare complication. During 1994 and 1995, 34 patients admitted to our hospital were diagnosed as having murine typhus. Five of these patients presented with a syndrome …

Feral kittens and other animals breeding during summer months can harbor all sorts of nasty microbes, including the flea-borne bacterial infection typhus.

There was an average of 700 requests in the area in the spring of 2016, but officials now claim they receive about 1,900 cleanup calls per month thanks to the number of growing homeless camps. But the growing homelessness and sanitation nightmares have led to yet another crisis: a rise in flea-borne typhus.