Open AccessCase Report: A Fatal Case of Scrub Typhus Complicated by Heatstroke
Author(s) -
Hiroaki Kikuchi,
Masashi Narita,
Yasuyuki Chida,
Tokiya Ishida,
Kazuaki Shinohara
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
american journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.015
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1476-1645
pISSN - 0002-9637
DOI - 10.4269/ajtmh.20-0577
Subject(s) - heatstroke , scrub typhus , orientia tsutsugamushi , medicine , eschar , serotype , glasgow coma scale , virology , surgery
A 76-year-old man who had been bathing in a hot spring was taken to the hospital in a coma. PCR assay performed on the eschar revealed a serotype Hirano/Kuroki of Orientia tsutsugamushi . Coexisted heatstroke superimposed on multiple underlying risk factors likely led to a fatal clinical course.
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