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Diagnosis of severe scrub typhus infection by next-generation sequencing:a case report

BACKGROUND: Scrub typhus is an acute febrile illness, which was caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi and transmitted through the bite of chiggers. The diagnosis of scrub typhus could be missed diagnosis due to the absence of the pathognomonic eschar. CASE PRESENTATION: A 76-year-old man was hospitalized...

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Autores principales: Chen, Jie, Zheng, Xu-dong, Dai, Qi-he, Hong, Wei-li, Li, You-peng, Chen, Rui, Ye, Bing-bing, Mo, Xiao-jie, Cui, Peng, Ruan, Zhan-wei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7137524/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32264829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-04991-y