1. Case Report: Scrub Typhus and Q Fever Coinfection.
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Jeong HJ, Choi S, Lee J, Gill B, Lee KM, Lee YS, Kim CM, Yun NR, and Kim DM
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- Animals, Coinfection blood, Coxiella burnetii, Female, Humans, Mice, Mice, Inbred BALB C, Middle Aged, Orientia tsutsugamushi isolation & purification, Q Fever diagnosis, Scrub Typhus blood, Spleen microbiology, Splenomegaly microbiology, Coinfection diagnosis, Coinfection microbiology, Doxycycline therapeutic use, Q Fever drug therapy, Scrub Typhus diagnosis
- Abstract
A 56-year-old female goat herder had scrub typhus that persisted after receiving doxycycline for 5 days. Her symptoms continued, prompting us to perform further examinations that revealed coinfection of Q fever and scrub typhus via molecular and serological testing. We also isolated Orientia tsutsugamushi using BALB/c mice and L929 cells.
- Published
- 2019
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