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==Clinical Features== | ==Clinical Features== | ||
[[File:Epidemic_typhus_Burundi.jpg|thumbnail|Epidemic typhus]] | [[File:Epidemic_typhus_Burundi.jpg|thumbnail|Epidemic typhus]] | ||
* | * Fever, headache, myalgias | ||
* | * Transmitted by arthropods/ ticks | ||
* | * Painless eschar at inoculation site imp clue | ||
* | * Camping, hiking in grassy/ scrub area | ||
* | * Regional LN, rash, | ||
==Differential Diagnosis== | ==Differential Diagnosis== | ||
Revision as of 13:17, 19 May 2016
Background
- Not to be confused with typhoid fever, a distinct disease caused by a different genera of bacteria
- Any of several similar diseases caused by Rickettsia bacteria (e.g. Rickettsia prowazekii, )
Clinical Features
- Fever, headache, myalgias
- Transmitted by arthropods/ ticks
- Painless eschar at inoculation site imp clue
- Camping, hiking in grassy/ scrub area
- Regional LN, rash,
Differential Diagnosis
Fever in traveler
- Normal causes of acute fever!
- Malaria
- Dengue
- Leptospirosis
- Typhoid fever
- Typhus
- Viral hemorrhagic fevers
- Chikungunya
- Yellow fever
- Rift valley fever
- Q fever
- Amebiasis
- Zika virus
Diagnosis
- leukopenia, thrombocytopenia
- Usually clinically
Treatment
- Tetracycline
- confirm serologically