Antibiotic susceptibility of Rickettsia and treatment of rickettsioses

✍ Scribed by D. Raoult

• Book ID: 104638432
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 345 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0393-2990
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00140135

✦ Synopsis

The author describes the in vitro data for antibiotic susceptibility of Rickettsia and Coxiella burnetii. Tetracyclines are still the first antibiotic choice in spotted fevers, typhus and Q fever. In spotted fever a shortened treatment is suggested and the place of macrolide antibiotics, such as Josamycin, in treating children may be evaluated. In Q fever, according to the new biological data, an association of tetracyclines and Rifampin or Quinolones is suggested.