Scrub Typhus Is an Under-recognized Cause of Acute Febrile Illness with Acute Kidney Injury in India

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 6-

  Kumar, Vivek ^a   Kumar, Vinod ^a   Yadav, Ashok K ^a   Iyengar, Sreenivasa ^a   Bhalla, Ashish ^a   Sharma, Navneet ^a   Aggarwal, Ritesh ^a   Jain, Sanjay ^a   Jha, Vivekanand ^a,b  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b GEORGE INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; BACTERIAL DNA; DOXYCYCLINE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ALBUMINURIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHEMISTRY; CHILD; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; FEVER; GENETICS; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; INDIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAUNDICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OLIGURIA; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SCRUB TYPHUS; SHOCK; URINALYSIS; URINE; YOUNG ADULT;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; CHILD; COMPLICATIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; INDIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SCRUB TYPHUS; URINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893812488     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002605     Document Type: Article

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