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Rickettsial infection presenting as culture-negative meningitis
M L Woo1, J W Leung, G L French
1Department of Microbiology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, N.T.
Postgraduate Medical Journal
|August 1, 1988
Abstract:
Meningitis is an unusual presentation of rickettsial infection. We report a patient who was confirmed by serology to have typhus fever (not scrub), but who presented with the typical findings of culture-negative bacterial meningitis. Neurological manifestations of different types of rickettsial infection are discussed.