Clinical profile of scrub typhus in children

Indian Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 79, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1459-1462

  Palanivel, Sengottaiyan ^a   Nedunchelian, Krishnamoorthi ^a   Poovazhagi, Varadharajan ^a   Raghunadan, Rangaswamy ^a   Ramachandran, Padmanabhan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (India)

Author keywords

Children; Rickettsial infections; Scrub typhus

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AZITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CAPILLARY LEAK SYNDROME; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EDEMA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; JAUNDICE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OLIGURIA; PALLOR; PATIENT REFERRAL; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RASH; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCRUB TYPHUS; SENSORY SYSTEM; SHOCK; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; URBAN AREA; VOMITING;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; AZITHROMYCIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOXYCYCLINE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; SCRUB TYPHUS; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84871328165     PISSN: 00195456     EISSN: 09737693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12098-012-0721-0     Document Type: Article

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