Bilateral Sensorineural Deafness in a Young Pregnant Female Presenting with a Fever: A Rare Complication of a Reemerging Disease-Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses.
A G T A KariyawasamD R PalangasingheChathuranga Lakmal FonsekaP U T De SilvaT E KanakkahewaN J DahanayakaPublished in: Case reports in infectious diseases (2019)
Sensorineural deafness is a rare complication of spotted fever group rickettsioses. Since usage of doxycycline is controversial in pregnancy, azithromycin gave a favourable recovery of fever. Sensorineural deafness took several months to resolve after completion of antibiotics.
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