Volume 10, Number 4—April 2004
Dispatch
Murine Typhus with Renal Involvement in Canary Islands, Spain
Table 2
Comparative laboratory findings in patients with murine typhusa
| Laboratory test | Location of study |
|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dumler, TX | Silpapojakul, Thailand | Bernabeu, Sevilla | Fergie, TX | Whiteford, TX | Gikas, Crete | Canary Islands | ||
| Anemia |
75 |
- |
1 |
57 |
69 |
25 |
18 |
|
| Leukopenia |
28 |
4 |
18 |
40 |
37 |
7 |
9 |
|
| Leukocytosis |
29 |
- |
20 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
18 |
|
| Neutrophilia |
- |
- |
- |
63 |
77 |
- |
36 |
|
| Thrombocytopenia |
48 |
3 |
19 |
60 |
43 |
51 |
45 |
|
| ESR elevated |
- |
- |
59 |
75 |
81 |
- |
89 |
|
| Increased ratio prothrombin time |
30 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
23 |
|
| Increased ratio aPTT |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
27 |
|
| Plasma BUN increased |
27 |
- |
- |
0 |
3 |
- |
36 |
|
| Plasma creatinine increased |
21 |
- |
- |
0 |
0 |
- |
14 |
|
| Hyponatremia |
60 |
- |
- |
66 |
58 |
37 |
18 |
|
| Plasma creatine kinase increased |
21 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
42 |
10 |
|
| Plasma LDH increased |
87 |
- |
- |
- |
100 |
82 |
81 |
|
| Plasma AST increased |
90 |
- |
67 |
67 |
82 |
86 |
77 |
|
| Plasma ALT increased |
73 |
- |
67 |
67 |
38 |
64 |
99 |
|
| Plasma alkaline phosphatase increased |
60 |
- |
25 |
- |
- |
15 |
30 |
|
| Plasma GGT increased |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
57.2 |
|
| Hypoalbuminemia |
89 |
- |
46 |
87 |
82 |
54.5 |
||
| Hypergammaglobulinemia | - | - | - | - | - | 75.0 | ||
aData are expressed as a percentage. TX, Texas; ESR, erythrocyte sedimentation rate; aPTT, activated partial thromboplastin time; BUN, blood urea nitrogen; LDH, lactate dehydrogenase; AST, aspartate aminotransferase; ALT, alanine aminotransferase; GGT, gamma glutamic transferase.
