Open Access<p>Scrub Typhus in Children at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Nepal</p>
Author(s) -
Luna Bajracharya
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
pediatric health, medicine and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1179-9927
DOI - 10.2147/phmt.s253106
Subject(s) - medicine , scrub typhus , vomiting , eschar , myocarditis , pediatrics , abdominal pain , jaundice , meningitis , surgery , pathology
Scrub typhus is an acute undifferentiated febrile illness with varied nonspecific manifestations. It dramatically responds to appropriate antibiotic if started earlier in the course of disease leading to significant reduction in morbidities and mortalities.