Leptospirosis and rickettsiosis, a diagnostic challenge for febrile syndrome in endemic areas
This is the case of a 50-year-old male from the region of Urabá, Colombia, with a mixed infection by Rickettsia rickettsii and Leptospira interrogans serovar Copenhageni ST78 and negative test for malaria and dengue fever.The patient presented with febrile syndrome and was unresponsive to systemic a...
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This is the case of a 50-year-old male from the region of Urabá, Colombia, with a mixed infection by Rickettsia rickettsii and Leptospira interrogans serovar Copenhageni ST78 and negative test for malaria and dengue fever.The patient presented with febrile syndrome and was unresponsive to systemic antibiotic treatment, who finally died in the intensive care unit. We established the postmortem diagnosis through molecular typification of the two etiological agents. In the inspection at the patient’s home, we found a Rattus rattus specimen infected with L. interrogans of the same serovar found in him. We found no ticks parasitizing the domestic animals cohabitating with the patient.This case of a mixed infection with progressive and fatal symptoms in a patient with occupational risk in a tropical disease endemic zone highlights the importance of considering the potential presentation of simultaneous etiologies in patients with multiple medical visits for unresolved febrile syndromes associated with risky exposure during agricultural activities. Se presenta el caso de un hombre de 50 años de edad proveniente de la región de Urabá, Colombia, con una infección mixta por Rickettsia rickettsii y Leptospira interrogans serovar Copenhageni ST78, y pruebas negativas para malaria y dengue.El paciente presentó un síndrome febril que no mejoró con el tratamiento antibiótico sistémico y, finalmente, falleció en la unidad de cuidados intensivos. El diagnóstico post mortem se hizo mediante tipificación molecular de los dos agentes etiológicos. En la inspección del domicilio del paciente, se encontró un ejemplar de Rattus rattus infectado con L. interrogans del mismo serovar detectado en él. No se encontraron garrapatas en los animales domésticos que habitaban con el paciente.Se reporta una infección mixta con síntomas clínicos progresivos y fatales en un paciente con antecedentes laborales de riesgo en una zona endémica para enfermedades tropicales, lo que obliga a tener presente la posibilidad de infecciones simultáneas en ... |
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Leptospirosis and rickettsiosis, a diagnostic challenge for febrile syndrome in endemic areas |
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Leptospirosis and rickettsiosis, a diagnostic challenge for febrile syndrome in endemic areas |
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Microbiol Res. 2018;207:108-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micres.2017.11.015 Mattar S, Tique V, Miranda J, Montes E, Garzón D. Undifferentiated tropical febrile illness in Córdoba, Colombia: Not everything is dengue. J Infect Public Health. 2017;10:507-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2016.09.014 Arroyave E, Londoño AF, Quintero JC, Agudelo-Flórez P, Arboleda M, Díaz FJ, et al. Etiología y caracterización epidemiológica del síndrome febril no palúdico en tres municipios del Urabá antioqueño, Colombia. Biomédica. 2013;33(Supl.1):99-107. https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v33i0.734 Martínez-Caballero A, Moreno B, González C, Martínez G, Adames M, Pachar JV, et al. Descriptions of two new cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Panama, and coincident infection with Rickettsia rickettsii in Rhipicephalus sanguineus s.l. in an urban locality of Panama City, Panama. Epidemiol Infect. 2018;146:875-8. Wang H-K, Lee M-H, Chen Y-C, Hsueh P-R, Chang S-C. Factors associated with severity and mortality in patients with confirmed leptospirosis at a regional hospital in northern Taiwan. J Microbiol Immunol Infect. 2020;53:307-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmii.2018.05.005 Vikram K, Agarwala P, Bhargava A, Jain Y, Jagzape T, Wasnik P. Scrub typhus and leptospirosis in rural and urban settings of central India: A preliminary evaluation. Trop Doct. 2020;50:111-5. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049475519889712 Quintero JC, Paternina LE, Uribe A, Muskus C, Hidalgo M, Gil J, et al. Eco-epidemiological analysis of rickettsial seropositivity in rural areas of Colombia: A multilevel approach. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2017;11:e0005892. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005892 Peláez-Sanchez RG, López JÁ, Pereira MM, Arboleda-Naranjo M, Agudelo-Flórez P. Genetic diversity of Leptospira in northwestern Colombia: First report of Leptospira santarosai as a recognized leptospirosis agent. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 2016;111:737-44. https://doi.org/10.1590/0074-02760160245 Boonsilp S, Thaipadungpanit J, Amornchai P, Wuthiekanun V, Bailey MS, Holden MTG, et al. A single multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme for seven pathogenic Leptospira species. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2013;7:e1954. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001954 Ahmed N, Devi SM, Valverde M de los A, Vijayachari P, Machang’u RS, Ellis WA, et al. Multilocus sequence typing method for identification and genotypic classification of pathogenic Leptospira species. Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob. 2006;5:28. https://doi.org/10.1186/1476-0711-5-28 Londoño AF, Acevedo-Gutiérrez LY, Marín D, Contreras V, Díaz FJ, Valbuena G, et al. Human prevalence of the spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiae in endemic zones of Northwestern Colombia. Ticks Tick-Borne Dis. 2017;8:477-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2017.02.006 Ko AI, Goarant C, Picardeau M. Leptospira: The dawn of the molecular genetics’ era for an emerging zoonotic pathogen. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2009;7:736-47. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro2208 De Brito T, Silva AMG da, Abreu PAE. Pathology and pathogenesis of human leptospirosis: A commented review. Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo. 2018;60:e23. https://doi.org/10.1590/s1678-9946201860023 Parola P, Paddock CD, Socolovschi C, Labruna MB, Mediannikov O, Kernif T, et al. Update on tick-borne rickettsioses around the world: A geographic approach. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2013; 26:657-702. https://doi.org/10.1128/CMR.00032-13 Quintero-Vélez JC, Faccini-Martínez ÁA, Rodas-González JD, Díaz FJ, Ramírez-García R, Somoyar-Ordosgoitia P, et al. Fatal Rickettsia rickettsii infection in a child, Northwestern Colombia, 2017. Ticks Tick-Borne Dis. 2019;10:995-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2019.05.009 Jaramillo L, Arboleda M, García V, Agudelo-Flórez P. Coinfección brucelosis-leptospirosis, Urabá, Colombia. Reporte de caso. 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ftjrbm:oai:oai.revistabiomedica.org:article/5598 2023-06-06T11:58:48+02:00 Leptospirosis and rickettsiosis, a diagnostic challenge for febrile syndrome in endemic areas Leptospirosis y rickettsiosis, reto diagnóstico para el síndrome febril en zonas endémicas Ramírez-García, René Quintero , Juan Carlos Rosado , Aixa Paola Arboleda , Margarita González, Víctor Alejandro Agudelo-Flórez, Piedad 2021-06-29 application/pdf text/xml https://revistabiomedica.org/index.php/biomedica/article/view/5598 spa spa Instituto Nacional de Salud https://revistabiomedica.org/index.php/biomedica/article/view/5598/4747 https://revistabiomedica.org/index.php/biomedica/article/view/5598/4900 Karnad DR, Richards GA, Silva GS, Amin P, Council of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine. Tropical diseases in the ICU: A syndromic approach to diagnosis and treatment. J Crit Care. 2018;46:119-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrc.2018.03.025 Kothari VM, Karnad DR, Bichile LS. Tropical infections in the ICU. J Assoc Physicians India. 2006;54:291-8. Montenegro DC, Bitencourth K, de Oliveira SV, Borsoi AP, Cardoso KM, Sousa MS, et al. Spotted fever: Epidemiology and vector-rickettsia-host relationship in Rio de Janeiro State. Front Microbiol. 2017;8:505. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.00505 Chin Vk, Lee TY, Lim WF, Wan Shahriman YW, Syafinaz AN, Zamberi S, et al. Leptospirosis in human: Biomarkers in host immune responses. Microbiol Res. 2018;207:108-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micres.2017.11.015 Mattar S, Tique V, Miranda J, Montes E, Garzón D. Undifferentiated tropical febrile illness in Córdoba, Colombia: Not everything is dengue. J Infect Public Health. 2017;10:507-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2016.09.014 Arroyave E, Londoño AF, Quintero JC, Agudelo-Flórez P, Arboleda M, Díaz FJ, et al. Etiología y caracterización epidemiológica del síndrome febril no palúdico en tres municipios del Urabá antioqueño, Colombia. Biomédica. 2013;33(Supl.1):99-107. https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v33i0.734 Martínez-Caballero A, Moreno B, González C, Martínez G, Adames M, Pachar JV, et al. Descriptions of two new cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Panama, and coincident infection with Rickettsia rickettsii in Rhipicephalus sanguineus s.l. in an urban locality of Panama City, Panama. Epidemiol Infect. 2018;146:875-8. Wang H-K, Lee M-H, Chen Y-C, Hsueh P-R, Chang S-C. Factors associated with severity and mortality in patients with confirmed leptospirosis at a regional hospital in northern Taiwan. J Microbiol Immunol Infect. 2020;53:307-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmii.2018.05.005 Vikram K, Agarwala P, Bhargava A, Jain Y, Jagzape T, Wasnik P. Scrub typhus and leptospirosis in rural and urban settings of central India: A preliminary evaluation. Trop Doct. 2020;50:111-5. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049475519889712 Quintero JC, Paternina LE, Uribe A, Muskus C, Hidalgo M, Gil J, et al. Eco-epidemiological analysis of rickettsial seropositivity in rural areas of Colombia: A multilevel approach. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2017;11:e0005892. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005892 Peláez-Sanchez RG, López JÁ, Pereira MM, Arboleda-Naranjo M, Agudelo-Flórez P. Genetic diversity of Leptospira in northwestern Colombia: First report of Leptospira santarosai as a recognized leptospirosis agent. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 2016;111:737-44. https://doi.org/10.1590/0074-02760160245 Boonsilp S, Thaipadungpanit J, Amornchai P, Wuthiekanun V, Bailey MS, Holden MTG, et al. A single multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme for seven pathogenic Leptospira species. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2013;7:e1954. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001954 Ahmed N, Devi SM, Valverde M de los A, Vijayachari P, Machang’u RS, Ellis WA, et al. Multilocus sequence typing method for identification and genotypic classification of pathogenic Leptospira species. Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob. 2006;5:28. https://doi.org/10.1186/1476-0711-5-28 Londoño AF, Acevedo-Gutiérrez LY, Marín D, Contreras V, Díaz FJ, Valbuena G, et al. Human prevalence of the spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiae in endemic zones of Northwestern Colombia. Ticks Tick-Borne Dis. 2017;8:477-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2017.02.006 Ko AI, Goarant C, Picardeau M. Leptospira: The dawn of the molecular genetics’ era for an emerging zoonotic pathogen. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2009;7:736-47. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro2208 De Brito T, Silva AMG da, Abreu PAE. Pathology and pathogenesis of human leptospirosis: A commented review. Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo. 2018;60:e23. https://doi.org/10.1590/s1678-9946201860023 Parola P, Paddock CD, Socolovschi C, Labruna MB, Mediannikov O, Kernif T, et al. Update on tick-borne rickettsioses around the world: A geographic approach. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2013; 26:657-702. https://doi.org/10.1128/CMR.00032-13 Quintero-Vélez JC, Faccini-Martínez ÁA, Rodas-González JD, Díaz FJ, Ramírez-García R, Somoyar-Ordosgoitia P, et al. Fatal Rickettsia rickettsii infection in a child, Northwestern Colombia, 2017. Ticks Tick-Borne Dis. 2019;10:995-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2019.05.009 Jaramillo L, Arboleda M, García V, Agudelo-Flórez P. Coinfección brucelosis-leptospirosis, Urabá, Colombia. Reporte de caso. Infectio. 2014;18:72-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infect.2014.02.002 Prabhakar U, Singh A. Atypical presentation of rickettsial spotted fever. J Ayub Med Coll Abbottabad. 2017;29:692-3. Licona-Enriquez JD, Delgado-de la Mora J, Paddock CD, Ramírez-Rodríguez CA, Candia-Plata MDC, Hernández GÁ. Rocky mountain spotted fever and pregnancy: Four cases from Sonora, México. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2017;97:795-8. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.16-0917 Cagliero J, Villanueva SYAM, Matsui M. Leptospirosis pathophysiology: Into the storm of cytokines. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2018;8:204. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2018.00204 Bhavnani SK, Drake J, Bellala G, Dang B, Peng B-H, Oteo JA, et al. How cytokines co-occur across rickettsioses patients: From bipartite visual analytics to mechanistic inferences of a cytokine storm. AMIA Jt Summits Transl Sci Proc. 2013;18:2013:15-9. https://revistabiomedica.org/index.php/biomedica/article/view/5598 Derechos de autor 2021 Biomédica Biomedica; Vol. 41 No. 2 (2021); 208-217 Biomédica; Vol. 41 Núm. 2 (2021); 208-217 2590-7379 0120-4157 Leptospirosis/diagnosis Rickettsiaceae infections/diagnosis fever hemorrhage zoonosis Leptospirosis/diagnóstico infecciones por Rickettsiaceae/diagnóstico fiebre hemorragia info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2021 ftjrbm https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrc.2018.03.02510.3389/fmicb.2017.0050510.1016/j.micres.2017.11.01510.1016/j.jiph.2016.09.01410.7705/biomedica.v33i0.73410.1016/j.jmii.2018.05.00510.1177/004947551988971210.1371/journal.pntd.000589210.1590/0074-0276016024510.137 2023-04-14T07:46:30Z This is the case of a 50-year-old male from the region of Urabá, Colombia, with a mixed infection by Rickettsia rickettsii and Leptospira interrogans serovar Copenhageni ST78 and negative test for malaria and dengue fever.The patient presented with febrile syndrome and was unresponsive to systemic antibiotic treatment, who finally died in the intensive care unit. We established the postmortem diagnosis through molecular typification of the two etiological agents. In the inspection at the patient’s home, we found a Rattus rattus specimen infected with L. interrogans of the same serovar found in him. We found no ticks parasitizing the domestic animals cohabitating with the patient.This case of a mixed infection with progressive and fatal symptoms in a patient with occupational risk in a tropical disease endemic zone highlights the importance of considering the potential presentation of simultaneous etiologies in patients with multiple medical visits for unresolved febrile syndromes associated with risky exposure during agricultural activities. Se presenta el caso de un hombre de 50 años de edad proveniente de la región de Urabá, Colombia, con una infección mixta por Rickettsia rickettsii y Leptospira interrogans serovar Copenhageni ST78, y pruebas negativas para malaria y dengue.El paciente presentó un síndrome febril que no mejoró con el tratamiento antibiótico sistémico y, finalmente, falleció en la unidad de cuidados intensivos. El diagnóstico post mortem se hizo mediante tipificación molecular de los dos agentes etiológicos. En la inspección del domicilio del paciente, se encontró un ejemplar de Rattus rattus infectado con L. interrogans del mismo serovar detectado en él. No se encontraron garrapatas en los animales domésticos que habitaban con el paciente.Se reporta una infección mixta con síntomas clínicos progresivos y fatales en un paciente con antecedentes laborales de riesgo en una zona endémica para enfermedades tropicales, lo que obliga a tener presente la posibilidad de infecciones simultáneas en ... 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