Pancreatitis and mods due to scrub typhus and dengue co-infection

Tropical Medicine and Health

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-21

  Viswanathan, Stalin ^a   Iqbal, Nayyar ^a   Remalayam, Bhavith ^a   Muthu, Vivekanandan ^a   George, Tarun ^a  

^a PONDICHERRY INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Dengue; Gastrointestinal manifestations; Scrub typhus pancreatitis

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; DENGUE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUID RESUSCITATION; FOOT EDEMA; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; INTESTINE SOUND; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MIXED INFECTION; PANCREATITIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; SCRUB TYPHUS; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 84865805770     PISSN: 13488945     EISSN: 13494147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2149/tmh.2012-07     Document Type: Article

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