Atypical lymphocytes with a multilobated nucleus from a patient with tsutsugamushi disease (scrub typhus) in Japan.
A case of tsutsugamushi disease (scrub typhus) with atypical lymphocytes with a multilobated nucleus is reported. Although this type of atypical lymphocyte has been reported in patients with viral infections such as adult T-cell leukemia, infectious mononucleosis, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, this is the first reported case of atypical lymphocyte with a multilobated nucleus in a patient with rickettsial infection. This type of atypical lymphocyte seems to exist in a broad spectrum of infectious diseases.
Iwasaki
H
H
First Department of Internal Medicine, Fukui Medical School, Japan.
Ueda
T
T
Uchida
M
M
Nakamura
T
T
Takada
N
N
Mahara
F
F
D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008875:Middle Aged; D012612:Scrub Typhus / Q000473:pathology*