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    Rickettsia typhi. A new causative agent of round pneumonia in adults

    Velasco-Tirado, Virginia; Hern?ndez-Cabrera, Michele; Pisos-?lamo, Elena; P?rez-Arellano, Jos?-Luis
    Published in Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin. 2012;30:427-8. - vol.30 n?m 07

    Round pneumonia is an inflammatory illness of the lung parenchyma (usually of infectious origin) presented as spherical or oval-shaped consolidation in chest radiography (CR). This well-known clinical-radiological syndrome is generally thought to be a disease of children, being reported rarely in adults1, 2. We report two patients with murine typhus (Rickettsia typhi) with a clinical-radiological picture of round pneumonia....more from the source
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