Scrub Typhus Presenting as an Acute Abdomen

Scrub typhus is a mite-borne infectious disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, which presents as an acute febrile illness with headache, myalgia, breathlessness, and an eschar, a pathognomonic sign, in a varying proportion of patients. However, this illness can present unusually with fever and se...

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Autores principales: Kundavaram, Abhilash PP, Das, Sohini, George, Varghese M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3982349/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24741225
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.127943
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description Scrub typhus is a mite-borne infectious disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, which presents as an acute febrile illness with headache, myalgia, breathlessness, and an eschar, a pathognomonic sign, in a varying proportion of patients. However, this illness can present unusually with fever and severe abdominal pain mimicking acute abdomen. A careful search for an eschar in all patients with an acute febrile illness would provide a valuable diagnostic clue and avoid unnecessary investigations and surgical exploration.
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spelling pubmed-39823492014-04-16 Scrub Typhus Presenting as an Acute Abdomen Kundavaram, Abhilash PP Das, Sohini George, Varghese M J Glob Infect Dis Case Report Scrub typhus is a mite-borne infectious disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, which presents as an acute febrile illness with headache, myalgia, breathlessness, and an eschar, a pathognomonic sign, in a varying proportion of patients. However, this illness can present unusually with fever and severe abdominal pain mimicking acute abdomen. A careful search for an eschar in all patients with an acute febrile illness would provide a valuable diagnostic clue and avoid unnecessary investigations and surgical exploration. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC3982349/ /pubmed/24741225 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.127943 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Global Infectious Diseases http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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