Usefulness of Eschar PCR for Diagnosis of Scrub Typhus
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Usefulness of eschar PCR for diagnosis of scrub typhus.
We report here on the case of a child who was infected with scrub typhus, and we made the diagnosis according to the serology and by performing PCRs on the child's eschar. The patient was treated with azithromycin, and he did not experience any complications. Performing nested PCR on the eschar might be both a rapid diagnostic test for scrub typhus in the early acute stage and a differential te...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0095-1137,1098-660X
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.44.3.1169-1171.2006