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Sheshashree Seshadri1, Jaime Fergie1
1Pediatric Infectious Disease, Driscoll Children's Hospital , Corpus Christi, TX, USA.
Abstract:
A 12-year-old boy presented with fever, lower extremity pain and weakness. Examination revealed paraparesis, thigh and calf tenderness. Labs showed high creatinine phosphokinase and Rickettsia typhi titers. This case illustrates endemic typhus should be considered in the differential diagnosis of myositis especially in areas with high prevalence of the disease. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of myositis and paraparesis associated with a case of murine typhus.
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