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A review of the global epidemiology of scrub typhus

Scrub typhus is a serious public health problem in the Asia-Pacific area. It threatens one billion people globally, and causes illness in one million people each year. Caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, scrub typhus can result in severe multiorgan failure with a case fatality rate up to 70% without a...

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Autores principales: Xu, Guang, Walker, David H., Jupiter, Daniel, Melby, Peter C., Arcari, Christine M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5687757/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29099844
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006062