Scrub typhus: the clinical significance of the eschar.

BMJ Case Rep

Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kawasaki Municipal Tama Hospital, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.

Published: May 2023

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