Immune thrombocytopenia with multi-organ dysfunction syndrome as a rare presentation of scrub typhus: a case report

BACKGROUND: Scrub typhus is an acute infectious illness caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi. It is endemic to a part of the world known as the “tsutsugamushi triangle”. Humans are accidental hosts in this zoonotic disease. About a third of patients admitted with scrub typhus have evidence of multi-orga...

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Autores principales: Ittyachen, Abraham M., Abraham, Saramma P., Krishnamoorthy, Smitha, Vijayan, Anuroopa, Kokkat, Jayamohan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5639588/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28985768
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-2826-z

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5639588/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28985768
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-2826-z

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