Mortality due to scrub typhus – report of five cases

Scrub typhus is largely ignored in India particularly during outbreaks of viral fever. The disease course is often complicated leading to fatalities in the absence of treatment. However, if diagnosed early and a specific treatment is initiated, the cure rate is high. We report here five cases of scr...

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Autores principales: Chaudhry, Rama, Thakur, Chandan Kumar, Gupta, Nitin, Sagar, Tanu, Bahadur, Tej, Wig, Naveet, Sood, Rita, Misra, Mahesh Chandra
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6755786/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31496533
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_1314_18
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author Chaudhry, Rama
Thakur, Chandan Kumar
Gupta, Nitin
Sagar, Tanu
Bahadur, Tej
Wig, Naveet
Sood, Rita
Misra, Mahesh Chandra
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description Scrub typhus is largely ignored in India particularly during outbreaks of viral fever. The disease course is often complicated leading to fatalities in the absence of treatment. However, if diagnosed early and a specific treatment is initiated, the cure rate is high. We report here five cases of scrub typhus to highlight the fact that high clinical suspicion for such a deadly disease is an absolute necessity.
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spelling pubmed-67557862019-09-30 Mortality due to scrub typhus – report of five cases Chaudhry, Rama Thakur, Chandan Kumar Gupta, Nitin Sagar, Tanu Bahadur, Tej Wig, Naveet Sood, Rita Misra, Mahesh Chandra Indian J Med Res Original Article Scrub typhus is largely ignored in India particularly during outbreaks of viral fever. The disease course is often complicated leading to fatalities in the absence of treatment. However, if diagnosed early and a specific treatment is initiated, the cure rate is high. We report here five cases of scrub typhus to highlight the fact that high clinical suspicion for such a deadly disease is an absolute necessity. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6755786/ /pubmed/31496533 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_1314_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Indian Journal of Medical Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Chaudhry, Rama
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Mortality due to scrub typhus – report of five cases
title Mortality due to scrub typhus – report of five cases
title_full Mortality due to scrub typhus – report of five cases
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title_short Mortality due to scrub typhus – report of five cases
title_sort mortality due to scrub typhus – report of five cases
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6755786/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31496533
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_1314_18
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