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Volume 10, Number 4—April 2004
Dispatch

Murine Typhus with Renal Involvement in Canary Islands, Spain

Michele Hernández-Cabrera1*†, Alfonso Angel-Moreno1*†, Evora Santana*†, Margarita Bolaños*, Adela Francès*, Antonio-Manuel Martín-Sánchez*†, and Jose Luis Pérez-Arellano*†
Author affiliations: *Hospital Universitario Insular de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain; †Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain

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Table 2

Comparative laboratory findings in patients with murine typhusa

Laboratory test Location of study
Dumler, TX Silpapojakul, Thailand Bernabeu, Sevilla Fergie, TX Whiteford, TX Gikas, Crete Canary Islands
Anemia
 75
 -
 1
 57
 69
 25
 18
Leukopenia
 28
 4
 18
 40
 37
 7
 9
Leukocytosis
 29
 -
 20
 3
 1
 0
 18
Neutrophilia
 -
 -
 -
 63
 77
 -
 36
Thrombocytopenia
 48
 3
 19
 60
 43
 51
 45
ESR elevated
 -
 -
 59
 75
 81
 -
 89
Increased ratio prothrombin time
 30
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 23
Increased ratio aPTT
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 27
Plasma BUN increased
 27
 -
 -
 0
 3
 -
 36
Plasma creatinine increased
 21
 -
 -
 0
 0
 -
 14
Hyponatremia
 60
 -
 -
 66
 58
 37
 18
Plasma creatine kinase increased
 21
 -
 -
 -
 -
 42
 10
Plasma LDH increased
 87
 -
 -
 -
 100
 82
 81
Plasma AST increased
 90
 -
 67
 67
 82
 86
 77
Plasma ALT increased
 73
 -
 67
 67
 38
 64
 99
Plasma alkaline phosphatase increased
 60
 -
 25
 -
 -
 15
 30
Plasma GGT increased
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 57.2
Hypoalbuminemia
 89
-
 46
 87
 82
 54.5
Hypergammaglobulinemia - - - - - 75.0

aData are expressed as a percentage. TX, Texas; ESR, erythrocyte sedimentation rate; aPTT, activated partial thromboplastin time; BUN, blood urea nitrogen; LDH, lactate dehydrogenase; AST, aspartate aminotransferase; ALT, alanine aminotransferase; GGT, gamma glutamic transferase.

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1Drs. Hernández-Cabrera and Angel-Moreno contributed equally to the article.

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