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Classroom classification

百科

Scrub typhus

传染科

Common symptoms

不规则热、斑丘疹、细菌感染、出血倾向、传导阻滞、肝脾肿大、心力衰竭、剧烈头痛、发绀、鼻出血

The pathology of disease

Scrub typhus is Orientia tsutsugamushi infection transmitted by chiggers; fever; headache; eschar; rash; Southeast Asia; doxycycline.

Symptoms

Fever; headache; rash; eschar at chigger bite; regional lymphadenopathy; Southeast Asia; thrombocytopenia

Causes

Orientia tsutsugamushi; chigger bite; scrub habitat; rural Asia-Pacific.

Treatment

Doxycycline; supportive; treat early; mosquito/chigger protection

Dept

Infectious disease / tropical medicine.

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