Acute Renal Failure Due to Acute Tubular Necrosis Caused by Direct Invasion of Orientia tsutsugamushi
- 1 April 2008
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 46 (4), 1548-1550
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.01040-07
Abstract
We describe a scrub typhus patient with acute renal failure for whom a diagnosis was made based on serology as well as immunohistochemical (IHC) staining and an electron microscopic examination (EM) of a renal biopsy specimen. For our case, we demonstrated by IHC staining and EM that renal failure was caused by acute tubular necrosis due to a direct invasion of Orientia tsutsugamushi .Keywords
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