Article
Scrub typhus: A new cause of acute undifferentiated febrile illness in Latin America?
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2021Registro en:
Silva-Ramos CR, Jacinavicius FC, Weitzel T, Walker DH, Faccini-Martínez ÁA. Scrub typhus: A new cause of acute undifferentiated febrile illness in Latin America? Travel Med Infect Dis. 2021 Sep-Oct;43:102138. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2021.102138
Autor
Silva, Carlos
Weitzel, Thomas
Walker, David
Faccini, Álvaro
Jacinavicius, Fernando
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Resumen
Classical scrub typhus or tsutsugamushi disease, caused by rickettsial bacteria of the species Orientia tsutsugamushi, is a re-emerging vector-borne infectious disease that affects more than one million people annually in the Asia-Pacific region, where it is an important cause of treatable undifferentiated febrile illness . However, if confused with other etiologies and not adequately treated, case fatality rises significantly and reaches a mean value of 6%, but rates up to 70% have been reported