EPIDEMIC TYPHUS FEVER, COMPLICATED WITH ERYSIPELAS, IN THE COUNTY OF ANTRIM.

Jail fever (epidemic typhus) outbreak in Burundi.

We recently investigated a suspected outbreak of epidemic typhus in a jail in Burundi. We tested sera of nine patients by microimmunofluorescence for antibodies to Rickettsia prowazekii and Rickettsia typhi. We also amplified and sequenced from lice gene portions specific for two R. prowazekii proteins: the gene encoding for citrate synthase and the gene encoding for the rickettsial outer membr...

Epidemic hemorrhagic fever complicated with late pregnancy

RATIONALE Hantaviruses cause two forms of diseases in humans, namely hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. Hantavirus infections can occur in pregnant women, and could influence the maternal and fetal outcomes, although this is a rare finding, even in endemic areas. PATIENT CONCERNS In this report, we describe anunusual case involving a pregnant woman...

Carbuncle Complicated with Erysipelas

A Case of Hydatid Cyst in County Antrim

HYDATID disease is due to the development in man, acting as an intermediate host, of the cystic larval form of a small tapeworm, Echinococcus granulosus, the normal habitat of which is the ileum of the dog. Ova from an infected dog are deposited with its faeces on the ground. By this means grass and vegetables are polluted with ova, and when eaten by sheep, cattle, goats or occasionally by man ...

Typhus Fever

The temperature at which tissue cultures infected with typhus Rickettsiae are incubated has been shown to exert a marked influence on the intracellular multiplication of Rickettsia prowazeki. At 41 degrees C. the organisms were not found in the cultures histologically on and after the 2nd day in vitro, and the cultures were non-virulent on and after the 3rd day in vitro, in spite of good preser...