title: A case of laboratory-acquired murine typhus.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Soon-Chun-Hyang University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Woo
authors.forename: J Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Y S
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: N M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: K W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Choe
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007757:Laboratory Infection / Q000635:transmission*; D014437:Typhus, Endemic Flea-Borne / Q000635:transmission*