Clinical profile, complications and outcome of scrub typhus in children: A hospital based observational study in central Nepal

Scrub typhus, an important cause of unexplained fever, is grossly neglected and often misdiagnosed in low and middle income countries like Nepal. The main aim of this study was to report on the clinical profile and complications of scrub typhus and its outcome in Nepalese children. A prospective obs...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one Jg. 14; H. 8; S. e0220905
Hauptverfasser:	Pathak, Santosh, Chaudhary, Nagendra, Dhakal, Prativa, Shakya, Disuja, Dhungel, Prativa, Neupane, Gagan, Shrestha, Sandeep, Regmi, Shanti, Kurmi, Om P.
Format:	Journal Article
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	United States Public Library of Science 13.08.2019 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Anti-Bacterial Agents - administration & dosage Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use Antibiotics Antigens Azithromycin Azithromycin - administration & dosage Azithromycin - therapeutic use Biology and Life Sciences Child Child, Preschool Children Complications Cough Creatinine Demographic aspects Doxycycline Doxycycline - administration & dosage Doxycycline - therapeutic use Drug Therapy, Combination Edema Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay Enzymes Female Fever Headache Heart diseases Hepatitis Humans Hyponatremia Immunoglobulin M Infant Injury prevention Jaundice Laboratories Liver Lymphadenopathy Lymphatic diseases Male Medicine and Health Sciences Mortality Myalgia Myocarditis Nausea Nepal - epidemiology Observational studies Orientia tsutsugamushi Pain Patient outcomes Pediatric diseases Pediatrics People and Places Prospective Studies Public health Rash Renal function Scrub typhus Scrub Typhus - complications Scrub Typhus - drug therapy Scrub Typhus - parasitology Seizures Seizures (Medicine) Splenomegaly Statistics Teaching hospitals Tertiary Care Centers Thrombocytopenia Treatment Outcome Typhus Urine Vomiting Nepal Canada India
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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