Tropical Typhus

Tropical Typhus

Murine (endemic) typhus in Brazil: case report and review.

Murine typhus has been increasingly recognized worldwide and is becoming a relevant differential diagnosis in febrile conditions. In Brazil, murine typhus has never received much attention. We present a recently diagnosed case and a literature review that suggests that the disease could be more prevalent in Southeastern Brazil than acknowledged until now.

Concurrent Infection with Murine Typhus and Scrub Typhus in Southern Laos—the Mixed and the Unmixed

1 Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU), Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao PDR, 2 Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Churchill Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 3 Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, 4 Salavan Provincial Hospital, Salavan, Salavan Provin...

Acute and potentially life-threatening tropical diseases in western travelers--a GeoSentinel multicenter study, 1996-2011.

We performed a descriptive analysis of acute and potentially life-threatening tropical diseases among 82,825 ill western travelers reported to GeoSentinel from June of 1996 to August of 2011. We identified 3,655 patients (4.4%) with a total of 3,666 diagnoses representing 13 diseases, including falciparum malaria (76.9%), enteric fever (18.1%), and leptospirosis (2.4%). Ninety-one percent of th...

Acute fulminant myocarditis in scrub typhus.

Scrub typhus is a zoonotic disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi in which humans are accidental hosts. It is a febrile illness which is confined to rural Asia and the Western Pacific islands. Severe complications are very rare. We report four cases of acute fulminant myocarditis in children with scrub typhus. This complication led to severe cardiogenic shock and death in two of them. We beli...

Doxycycline versus Azithromycin for the Treatment of Leptospirosis and Scrub typhus

Doxycycline versus Azithromycin for the Treatment of Leptospirosis and Scrub typhus. 2 Running Title: Oral treatment of leptospirosis and scrub typhus 3 Kriangsak Pimda 1 4 Siriwan Hoontrakul 2 5 Chuanpit Suttinont 3 6 Sompong Chareonwat 4 7 Kitti Losuwanaluk 5 8 Sunee Chueasuwanchai 6 9 Wirongrong Chierakul 6, 7 10 Duangjai Suwancharoen 8 11 Saowaluk Silpasakorn 9 12 Watcharee Saisongkorh 10 1...