Fourteen days of tetracycline 2 g / day or doxycycline 200 mg / day, the recommended course of therapy,102 is also effective at reducing relapses of scrub typhus, which are more common if patients are started on shorter courses of therapy during the first 5 days of the ...
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The obligate intracellular bacteriumOrientia tsutsugamushiis responsible for more than one million cases of scrub typhus annually throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Human infection occurs via the bite of the larval form (chigger) of several species of trombiculid mites. While in some patients the ...
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[12,13]. Other signs and symptoms of the infection include: rash, regional lymphadenopathy, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, abdominal pain, and central nervous system involvement [14,15,16,17]. If diagnosed early and accurately, scrub typhus can be effectively treated with doxycycline, azithromycin, ...