Volume 20, Number 8—August 2014
Dispatch
Severe Murine Typhus with Pulmonary System Involvement
Table
Pulmonary manifestations of murine typhus reported from cohort studies*
Reference |
Year |
Region |
No. cases |
No. chest radiographs |
No. chest radiographs showing abnormalities |
Details |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(4) | 1999 | Mediterranean | 104 | NM | 8 | 7 cases of pneumonitis, 1 case of ARDS |
(5) | 2001 | USA | 97 | 81 | 10 | Radiographic evidence of pneumonitis in 10/81 cases |
(6) | 2004 | Mediterranean | 87 | NM | 6 | 4 cases of pulmonary infiltrates, 2 cases of pleural effusion |
(7) | 2008 | Asia | 50 | 16 | 6 | 6 cases of pulmonary infiltrates |
(8) | 2009 | Mediterranean | 41 | NM | 22 | Abnormal chest radiographs for 22 patients |
(9) | 2009 | Asia | 28 | 15 | 9 | 9 bilateral reticulonodular infiltrates |
(10) | 2012 | Mediterranean | 90 | NM | 15 | 13 cases of interstitial pneumonia, 2 cases of pleural effusion |
(11) | 2012 | Asia | 81 | 49 | 16 | 15 cases of pulmonary infiltrates, 1 case of ARDS |
(12) | 2013 | Mediterranean | 43 | 39 | 12 | 2 cases of alveolar infiltrates, 10 cases of interstitial infiltrates |
*NM, not mentioned; ARDS, acute respiratory distress syndrome.
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