Prospective study to assess the treatment modalities and fever defervescence in patients with scrub typhus from a tertiary care centre in South India | Zendy

Rohit Barnabas | Zendy; KPP Abhilash | Zendy; George M. Varghese | Zendy; M Shubanker | Zendy; I Ramya | Zendy; JAJ Prakash | Zendy

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Prospective study to assess the treatment modalities and fever defervescence in patients with scrub typhus from a tertiary care centre in South India

Author(s) -

Rohit Barnabas,

KPP Abhilash,

George M. Varghese,

M Shubanker,

I Ramya,

JAJ Prakash

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

journal of vector borne diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.581

H-Index - 41

ISSN - 0972-9062

DOI - 10.4103/0972-9062.321748

Subject(s) - scrub typhus , azithromycin , medicine , doxycycline , incidence (geometry) , regimen , eschar , antibiotics , prospective cohort study , surgery , pathology , physics , optics , microbiology and biotechnology , biology

Fever defervescence in scrub typhus, a zoonotic bacterial infection is used as a surrogate marker of disease resolution. Failure of fever defervescence prompts clinicians to suspect alternate diagnoses and treatment. In this observational study, various treatment regimens were correlated with clinical outcomes.

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