Landouzy sepsis

Landouzy sepsis , including sepsis tuberculosa acutissima and Typhobacillose (Landouzy) is a term for a fulminant septic onset form of tuberculosis , the during immune deficiency (for example, in the context of AIDS may occur). It is a form of primary tuberculosis, which usually runs with high fever, spleen swelling, headache and without radiological lung involvement. Mortality is high.

The first person to describe the disease was the Parisian neurologist Louis Théophile Joseph Landouzy (1845–1917).

literature

• Pschyrembel Clinical Dictionary. 259th edition. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-11-016522-8 .
• Karl Wurm, AM Walter: Infectious Diseases. In: Ludwig Heilmeyer (ed.): Textbook of internal medicine. Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1955; 2nd edition, ibid. 1961, pp. 9-223, here: p. 131.

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