A re-emerging infection?

South Med J. 2009 Mar;102(3):299-300. doi: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e318188b2ca.

Abstract

A 38-year-old female with a two-week history of amoxicillin use for fever, cough, and coryza presented with two days of erythematous chest macules. Despite discontinuation of the antibiotic, her rash continued; measles was diagnosed with IgM titers. Three weeks previously she had returned from China. She had received only one vaccination despite travel to this measles-endemic area. Vaccination and herd immunity have reduced the measles prevalence in America by more than 99%; travel, foreign adoption, and refusal of vaccination have, however, increased the risk.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • China
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Exanthema / diagnosis*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Immunoglobulin M
  • Mass Vaccination
  • Measles / diagnosis*
  • Measles / immunology*
  • Measles Vaccine / immunology*
  • Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine
  • Travel*
  • United States

Substances

  • Immunoglobulin M
  • Measles Vaccine
  • Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine