Woo J H, Cho J Y, Kim Y S, Choi D H, Lee N M, Choe K W, Chang W H
Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Soon-Chun-Hyang University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
Korean J Intern Med. 1990 Jul;5(2):118-22. doi: 10.3904/kjim.1990.5.2.118.
We encountered a 32-year-old Korean woman who developed murine typhus in a laboratory. She worked as a technician in a laboratory for rickettsial disease. Immunofluorescence test with rickettsial antigen (R. typhi) was positive at 1: 320 on admission and 1: 1280 after 4 weeks. A dose of 200 mg of doxycycline for 7 days proved to be effective for her condition.