Malignant Mediterranean spotted fever
Abstract
Keywords
Full Text:
PDFReferences
Parola P, Socolovschi C, Raoult D. Deciphering the relationships between Rickettsia conorii and Rhipicephalus sanguineus in the ecology and epidemiology of Mediterranean spotted fever. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2009; 1166:49-54.
De Sousa R, Nobrega SD, Bacellar F. Mediterranean spotted fever in Portugal: risk factors for fatal outcome in 105 hospitalized patients. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2003; 990:285–294.
Rovery C, Raoult D. Mediterranean Spotted Fever. Infect Dis Clin N Am 2008; 22:515-530.
E Chipp and S Digby. Rickettsia: an unusual cause of sepsis in the emergency department. Emerg Med J 2006; 23:e60.
Angel Lopez Rodriguez; Vicente Jerez; Ann Garcia Lombardo. ARDS associated with Boutonneuse Fever. Chest 1989; 95:924-925.
Walker DH, Gear JHS. Correlation of the distribution of Rickettsia conorii, microscopic lesions, and clinical features in South African tick-bite fever. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1985; 34:361-371
Walker DH, Herrero-Herrero JI, Ruiz-Beltran R. The pathology of fatal Mediterranean spotted fever. Am J Clin Pathol 1987; 87:669-672.
Shimon Harrus, Yael Lior, Moshe Ephros, et al. Rickettsia conorii in Humans and Dogs: A Seroepidemiologic Survey of Two Rural Villages in Israel. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2007; 77:133–135.
Sousa R, França A, Nóbrega SD. Host and microbe-related risk factors for and pathophysiology of fatal Rickettsia conorii infection in Portuguese patients. J Infect Dis 2008; 198:576–585.
Santibánez S, Portillo A, Santibánez P. Usefulness of rickettsial PCR assays for the molecular diagnosis of human Rickettsioses. Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin. 2013; 31:283–288.
Brouqui P, Bacellar F, Baranton G, et al. Members of ESCAR (ESCMID Study Group on Coxiella, Anaplasma, Rickettsia and Bartonella) and the European Network for Surveillance of Tick-Borne Diseases. Guidelines for the diagnosis of tick-borne bacterial diseases in Europe. Clin Microbiol Infect 2004; 10:1108–32.
Ware LB, Matthay MA. The acute respiratory distress syndrome. N Engl J Med 2000; 342:1334-1349.
Tunkel AR, Glaser CA, Bloch KC, et al. The Management of Encephalitis: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clin Infect Dis 2008; 47:303–327.
Alioua Z, Bourazza A, Lamsyah H, et al. Neurological feature of Mediterranean spotted fever: a study of four cases. Rev Med Interne 2003; 24:824–829.
Aliaga L, Sánchez-Blázquez P, Rodrı ́guez-Granger J, Sampedro A, Orozco M, Pastor J. Mediterranean spotted fever with encephalitis. J Med Microbiology 2009; 58:521–525.
Botelho-Nevers E, Raoult D. Host, pathogen and treatment-related prognostic factors in rickettsioses. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2011; 10:1139-1150.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22551/2015.07.0203.10042
Copyright (c) 2015 Archive of Clinical Cases
Archive of Clinical Cases is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
ISSN: 2360-6975