Infectious Disease · Infectious disease / Bacterial infections
Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction syndrome
also: JHR
Fever and rigors after antibiotic treatment of spirochetal infection.
- Specialty
- Infectious Disease
- Subspecialty
- Infectious disease / Bacterial infections
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected; Children: yes
- Gene(s) involved
- None recorded
- Alternative names & eponyms
- JHR
Etiology & mechanism
Cytokine release from dying spirochetes.
Gene(s) involved (0)
No gene recorded for this syndrome.
Symptoms & signs (5)
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Shares symptoms with
3 shared
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
fever, hypotension, myalgia
2 shared
Cytokine release syndrome
fever, hypotension
2 shared
Dengue shock syndrome
fever, hypotension
2 shared
Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
fever, hypotension
2 shared
Lemierre syndrome
fever, rigors
2 shared
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children
fever, hypotension
2 shared
Organic dust toxic syndrome
fever, myalgia
2 shared
Severe acute respiratory syndrome
fever, myalgia
2 shared
Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome
fever, hypotension
2 shared
Toxic shock syndrome
fever, hypotension
Shares genes with
None.
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