A case of scrub typhus with acalculous cholecystitis, aseptic meningitis and mononeuritis multiplex.

Kayoko Hayakawa, Masayuki Oki, Yusuke Moriya, Atsushi Mizuma, Yoichi Ohnuki, Hidetaka Yanagi, Ryuki Fukuda, Hideki Ozawa, Shunya Takizawa, Atsushi Takagi

Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa 259-1193, Japan. khayakaw@med.wayne.edu

Journal of medical microbiology 2012 Feb

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We present an unusual case of a patient with scrub typhus who developed acalculous cholecystitis, aseptic meningitis and mononeuritis multiplex. The patient was successfully treated with oral minocycline. To our knowledge, this is the first report of mononeuritis multiplex caused by scrub typhus.

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Kayoko Hayakawa, Masayuki Oki, Yusuke Moriya, Atsushi Mizuma, Yoichi Ohnuki, Hidetaka Yanagi, Ryuki Fukuda, Hideki Ozawa, Shunya Takizawa, Atsushi Takagi. A case of scrub typhus with acalculous cholecystitis, aseptic meningitis and mononeuritis multiplex. Journal of medical microbiology. 2012 Feb;61(Pt 2):291-4