Neurologic abnormalities in a patient with human ehrlichiosis.

Abstract:

:Human ehrlichiosis is a tick-borne rickettsial disease characterized by fever, headache, myalgias, anorexia, and occasionally rash. In our patient, changes in mental status, upper motor neuron signs, cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis, and increased serum protein levels were found in association with serologically confirmed ehrlichiosis and were most likely due to vasculitis involving the central nervous system. Intraleukocytic inclusions, although observed in our case, have been infrequently found in other reported cases of ehrlichiosis.

journal_name

South Med J

journal_title

Southern medical journal

authors

Harkess JR,Stucky D,Ewing SA

doi

10.1097/00007611-199011000-00031

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1990-11-01 00:00:00

pages

1341-3

issue

11

eissn

0038-4348

issn

1541-8243

journal_volume

83

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