Scrub typhus infection in pregnancy: the dilemma of diagnosis and treatment in a resource‐limited setting

To save the life of both mother and fetus, the risks and benefits of the few antibiotics considered effective in the treatment of severe scrub typhus require consideration. In this case, chloramphenicol treatment averted maternal but not fetal mortality. Evidence‐based guidelines appropriate for res...

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Autores principales: Watthanaworawit, Wanitda, Kolakowska, Edyta, Hanboonkunupakarn, Borimas, Ling, Clare, McGready, Rose
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4891484/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27398202
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.572
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author Watthanaworawit, Wanitda
Kolakowska, Edyta
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Ling, Clare
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spelling pubmed-48914842016-07-08 Scrub typhus infection in pregnancy: the dilemma of diagnosis and treatment in a resource‐limited setting Watthanaworawit, Wanitda Kolakowska, Edyta Hanboonkunupakarn, Borimas Ling, Clare McGready, Rose Clin Case Rep Case Reports To save the life of both mother and fetus, the risks and benefits of the few antibiotics considered effective in the treatment of severe scrub typhus require consideration. In this case, chloramphenicol treatment averted maternal but not fetal mortality. Evidence‐based guidelines appropriate for resource‐limited endemic areas are required. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016-05-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4891484/ /pubmed/27398202 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.572 Text en © 2016 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Scrub typhus infection in pregnancy: the dilemma of diagnosis and treatment in a resource‐limited setting
title_full Scrub typhus infection in pregnancy: the dilemma of diagnosis and treatment in a resource‐limited setting
title_fullStr Scrub typhus infection in pregnancy: the dilemma of diagnosis and treatment in a resource‐limited setting
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title_short Scrub typhus infection in pregnancy: the dilemma of diagnosis and treatment in a resource‐limited setting
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4891484/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27398202
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.572
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