February 23, 2015Paediatrics and International Child Health

Scrub typhus in rural Rajasthan and a review of other Indian studies

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Population

30 children with clinical presentation and/or serological confirmation of scrub typhus who tested negative…

Design

Case_series

Authors

RMRupesh Masand RYRitesh Yadav APAlok Purohit

Discussion

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Implication

Supports empirical doxycycline for suspected pediatric scrub typhus in endemic areas; leaves open need for larger confirmatory studies.

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Population

30 children with clinical presentation and/or serological confirmation of scrub typhus who tested negative for malaria, enteric fever, dengue, leptospirosis and urinary tract infection (UTI), mean age 8.56 years, from rural Rajasthan, India.

Intervention

Medical management including doxycycline or intravenous chloramphenicol

Outcome

Clinical features and response to treatment

In a pediatric cohort in rural Rajasthan, scrub typhus commonly presented with fever, headache, and hepatosplenomegaly, with most patients responding rapidly to doxycycline.

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Masand et al. (2015) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8a56db5c716ca1a5d46b16 https://doi.org/10.1179/2046905515y.0000000004

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Scrub typhus in rural Rajasthan and a review of other Indian studies

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Scrub typhus in rural Rajasthan and a review of other Indian studies

Discussion

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Implication

Structured PICO

Cite This Study

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