EHRLICHIAN AIHEUTTAMA KUOLEMANTAPAUS

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Aiemmin terve henkilö kuoli ehrlichia chaffeensis -bakteerin aiheuttamaan etenevään sydäntulehdukseen ja useiden elinten pettämiseen. (2012)

Clin Infect Dis 2012(Feb)

Fatal Ehrlichial Myocarditis in a Healthy Adolescent: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.

Havens NS, Kinnear BR, Mató S

Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Missouri Health Care, Columbia.

Ehrlichial myocarditis is an unusual finding in nonimmunosuppressed patients. A case of fatal ehrlichiosis with rapidly progressive myocarditis and multiorgan failure from Ehrlichia chaffeensis in a previously healthy adolescent is described.