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Trop Med Infect Dis
December 2022
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand.
Scrub typhus is a mite-borne disease caused by a Gram-negative obligately intracellular bacillus, . The disease is endemic in the Asia-Australia-Pacific region, including Thailand. Scrub typhus generally manifests as acute undifferentiated febrile fever along with myalgia, rash, and lymphadenopathy.
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December 2022
Department of Physiology, Gandaki Medical College Teaching Hospital and Research Center, Pokhara, 33700, Nepal.
Introduction: Scrub Typhus (ST) is an acute febrile illness caused by obligate intracellular bacteria of the family Rickettsia. It is often unrecognized and neglected but prevalent in tropical regions of endemic areas. The tragedy behind this diagnostic dilemma is non-specific clinical signs and symptoms, limited awareness, unavailability of diagnostic facilities, and low index of suspicion among the physicians.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Infect Dis
July 2021
Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania; Dr Victor Babes Clinical Hospital of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Bucharest, Romania.
Bacillus anthracis is a sporulating gram-positive rod whose main route of entry into the human body is cutaneous. Anthrax meningitis is usually fulminant and fatal. We present here a successfully treated case of anthrax meningoencephalitis complicated with brain abscess.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Postgrad Med
May 2021
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
BMC Pediatr
April 2019
Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wen Zhou, China.
Background: This study sought to analyze the cases of clinical misdiagnosis of scrub typhus complicated by hemophagocytic syndrome.
Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records for diagnoses, clinical course, chest X-ray findings, laboratory data, and antibiotic therapy.
Results: All nine patients were misdiagnosed at the outpatient department between 07/2009 and 07/2017.
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