Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis: An Unusual complication of Orientia tsutsugamushi disease (scrub typhus)

Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Basheer, Aneesh ^a   Padhi, Somanath ^a   Boopathy, Vinoth ^a   Mallick, Saumyaranjan ^b   Nair, Shashikala ^a   Varghese, Renu G'Boy ^a   Kanungo, Reba ^a  

^a PONDICHERRY INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; FERRITIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; SCRUB TYPHUS;

EID: 84923673412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20353006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4084/mjhid.2015.008     Document Type: Article

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