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Rickettsial infection presenting as culture-negative meningitis.
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  1. M. L. Woo,
  2. J. W. Leung,
  3. G. L. French
  1. Department of Microbiology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, N.T.

    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.

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.64.754.614

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