Clinical Profile and Outcome of Adult Patients with Scrub Typhus in a Tertiary Care Centre of Eastern Nepal: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study
Author(s) -
Ram Hari Ghimire,
Ashima Ghimire,
Sunil Dhungana,
Bides Bista,
Rupesh Kumar Shreewastav
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of nepal medical association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.176
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1815-672X
pISSN - 0028-2715
DOI - 10.31729/jnma.4777
Subject(s) - medicine , tertiary care , cross sectional study , scrub typhus , descriptive research , tertiary level , family medicine , pediatrics , virology , pathology , statistics , mathematics education , mathematics
Scrub typhus is an under-diagnosed and undertreated zoonotic human infection. There are no data related to profile of adult patients in Nepal. We conducted this study to report socio-demographic, clinical profile and complications of scrub typhus in our scenario.
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