A case of laboratory-acquired murine typhus.
We encountered a 32-year-old Korean woman who developed murine typhus in a laboratory. She worked as a technician in a laboratory for rickettsial disease. Immunofluorescence test with rickettsial antigen (R. typhi) was positive at 1: 320 on admission and 1: 1280 after 4 weeks. A dose of 200 mg of doxycycline for 7 days proved to be effective for her condition.
Woo
J H
JH
Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Soon-Chun-Hyang University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
Cho
J Y
JY
Kim
Y S
YS
Choi
D H
DH
Lee
N M
NM
Choe
K W
KW
Chang
W H
WH
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007757:Laboratory Infection / Q000635:transmission*; D014437:Typhus, Endemic Flea-Borne / Q000635:transmission*