Scrub typhus: Emerging cause of multiorgan dysfunction
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Scrub Typhus: An Emerging Threat
Scrub typhus is caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi (formerly Rickettsia) and is transmitted to humans by an arthropod vector of the Trombiculidae family (Leptotrombidium deliense and L. akamushi). It is the most common re-emerging Rickettsial infection in India and many other South East Asian countries. In fact, scrub typhus is confined geographically to the Asia Pacific region, a billion people ...
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chills and rigors, headache, vomiting, cough which are all non-specific. Out of all the patients with pyrexia of intermediate duration studied, 10 had hepatosplenomegaly and only 1 scrub typhus positive patient had the sign and 1 out of the total 92 patients had neck stiffness and he was positive for scrub typhus by PCR. None of them had an eschar which is supposed to be characteristic of ricke...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0972-5229,1998-359X
DOI: 10.4103/0972-5229.138137