Indian Tick Typhus Presenting as Purpura Fulminans with Review on Rickettsial Infections

Rickettsial diseases are some of the most covert reemerging infections of the present times. They are generally incapacitating and notoriously difficult to diagnose; untreated cases can have fatality rates as high as 30%–35%, but when diagnosed properly, they are often easily treated but lack of def...

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Autores principales: Hulmani, Manjunath, Alekya, P, Kumar, V Jagannath
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5286740/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28216718
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.198030
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description Rickettsial diseases are some of the most covert reemerging infections of the present times. They are generally incapacitating and notoriously difficult to diagnose; untreated cases can have fatality rates as high as 30%–35%, but when diagnosed properly, they are often easily treated but lack of definite diagnostic tools and the hazards of handling these microorganisms aggravate the difficulties of diagnosis and treatment.
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spelling pubmed-52867402017-02-17 Indian Tick Typhus Presenting as Purpura Fulminans with Review on Rickettsial Infections Hulmani, Manjunath Alekya, P Kumar, V Jagannath Indian J Dermatol Review Article Rickettsial diseases are some of the most covert reemerging infections of the present times. They are generally incapacitating and notoriously difficult to diagnose; untreated cases can have fatality rates as high as 30%–35%, but when diagnosed properly, they are often easily treated but lack of definite diagnostic tools and the hazards of handling these microorganisms aggravate the difficulties of diagnosis and treatment. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5286740/ /pubmed/28216718 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.198030 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Dermatology 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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