Clinical and laboratory findings associated with severe scrub typhus
Open Access
- 30 April 2010
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 10 (1), 108
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-10-108
Abstract
Scrub typhus is a mite-borne bacterial infection of humans caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi that causes a generalized vasculitis that may involve the tissues of any organ system. The aim of this study was to identify factors associated to severe complications from scrub typhus.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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