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Eschar: a clue to scrub typhus.
E1152 CMAJ, October 18, 2011, 183(15) © 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors A33-year-old man from a rural Taiwanese village was admitted with a three-day history of fever, headache, muscle pain and skin rashes. On examination, he was febrile (39.2°C) with generalized macular patches and an eschar measuring 15 mm on the left lower quadrant of his abdomen (Figure 1). His leukocyte ...
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60-year-oldmanpresentedwith a seven-day history of fever, eadache, fatigue, and decreased urine output. On examinaion, he was febrile (38 ◦C), and had tachycardia. A blackish kin lesion was noted on the right side of his neck (Fig. 1). scharwas not preceded by any pain or itching. His hemogram evealed a hemoglobin count of 11.8 gm/dL, total leukocyte ount of 6300/mm3, and a platelet count of 80...
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BACKGROUND Scrub typhus is prevalent in India although definite statistics are not available. There has been only one study on scrub typhus meningitis 20 years ago. Most reports of meningitis/meningoencephalitis in scrub typhus are case reports. METHODS A retrospective study done in Pondicherry to extract cases of scrub typhus admitted to hospital between February 2011 and January 2012. Diagn...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ Case Reports
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1757-790X
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2021-242377