| spotted fever in hong kong. | a previously healthy 7-year-old hong kong-born caucasian child developed sudden onset fever, followed by a generalized rash and systemic symptoms of rigor and prostration, mucous membrane involvement (conjunctivitis) and arthralgia. he lives in a rural area of hong kong and has been in contact with various domestic animals--rodents, dogs and cows. chloramphenicol 50 mg/kg/day was given on day 4 with rapid response. subsequent weil-felix test and specific serology suggested the diagnosis of ricke ... | 1992 | 1280039 |
| the laboratory diagnosis of rickettsial diseases in hong kong. | indirect immunoperoxidase (ip) tests against antigens of rickettsia typhi, r. sibirica and r. tsutsugamushi were carried out on serum samples from 10 patients known to have high titres against one or more proteus ox antigens in the weil-felix (wf) test. the ip test confirmed rickettsial infection in nine of the 10 patients, giving unequivocal indications of the grouping of the infecting rickettsia species and, in one instance, showing a diagnostic igm titre in a specimen taken on day 3 of the pa ... | 1992 | 1404554 |