Characteristics of pediatric scrub typhus during an outbreak in the north eastern region of india: Peculiarities in clinical presentation, laboratory findings and complications

Indian Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1365-1370

  Dass, Rashna ^a   Deka, Nayan Mani ^a   Duwarah, Sourabh Gohain ^a   Barman, Himesh ^a   Hoque, Rejaul ^a   Mili, Dwijendra ^a   Barthakur, Dibakar ^a  

^a NORTH EASTERN INDIRA GANDHI REGIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Eschar; Rickettsia; Scrub typhus; Weil Felix test

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLICATION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; COUGHING; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE DURATION; ESCHAR; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; INDIA; LABORATORY TEST; LOOSE FECES; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MORTALITY; MYOCARDITIS; OXYGEN THERAPY; PANCYTOPENIA; PERITONITIS; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEIZURE; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPLENOMEGALY; SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TISSUE NECROSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VOMITING;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; CHILD; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DOXYCYCLINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCRUB TYPHUS;

EID: 82955237329     PISSN: 00195456     EISSN: 09737693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12098-011-0470-5     Document Type: Article

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