Publications by authors named "Jessica L Helms"

A 39 year-old male was residing along the south coast of Texas, the USA, presented with fever, myalgias, headaches, and weight loss for ten days. Symptoms and manifestations progressed to include nuchal rigidity, photophobia, hyponatremia, thrombocytopenia, and transaminitis despite the intravenous administration of ceftriaxone and azithromycin. A lumbar puncture performed in the Emergency Department yielded pleocytosis and glucose cerebrospinal fluid/serum ratio of 0.

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A 38-year-old African American male presented with progressive pain, swelling, numbness, and warmth of the left upper extremity ten days before admission. A chest computerized tomography scan showed a large 8.3 cm × 6.

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Murine typhus, also known as endemic typhus, is a disease resulting from an infection caused by the gram-negative bacillus . Murine typhus is identified worldwide, predominantly in tropical and subtropical geographic locations. Transmission occurs through direct inoculation by an arthropod vector, most commonly the rat flea, .

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