"The Lancet-Infectious Diseases" magazine cover photo courtesy of Qingdao Women and Children's Hospital
"The Lancet-Infectious Diseases" magazine cover photo courtesy of Qingdao Women and Children's Hospital Recently, a scientific research team composed of Sun Peng, Li Shengjun, Bu Xiangmao and Wen Rong from the Laboratory of Qingdao Women and Children’s Hospital wrote a case report "Typhoid cells are not always indicative of typhoid infection" in the top international medical journal "The Lancet - Infectious Diseases" "Magazine published
— The article study reported a case of an 11-year-old girl who came to the hospital due to repeated fever, headache, and abdominal pain for more than 2 months.
Typhoid cells are a special form of phagocytic cells, which are obviously related to typhoid infection
In 1975, "The Lancet " magazine reported that hemophagocytic cells and a type of tissue cells were found in bone marrow smears of patients with typhoid fever.
The magazine reported that hemophagocytic cells and a type of tissue cells were found in bone marrow smears of patients with typhoid fever.
Studies have shown that some cases of Brucella infection can involve the bone marrow and cause some characteristic changes, such as granulomatous lesions and the appearance of hemophagocytic cells
So far, the cause of typhoid fever cells is still unclear, but this discovery broke the traditional cognition of the medical profession.
Related paper information: https://doi.
https://doi.
org/10.
1016/S1473-3099(21)00064-5
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