Scrub Typhus Scrub typhus, additionally referred to as bush typhus, is a ailment because of a micro organism referred to as Orientia tsutsugamushi. Scrub typhus is unfold to humans thru bites of inflamed chiggers. The maximum not unusualplace signs of scrub typhus encompass fever, headache, frame aches, and on occasion rash. How is scrub typhus diagnosed? It is unfold via way of means of chiggers (mite larvae). People with scrub typhus have a fever, chills, and a headache, accompanied via way of means of a rash numerous days later. To diagnose the infection, docs check a pattern of the rash and every now and then do blood tests. Scrub typhus is handled with an antibiotic. Scrub typhus is an acute febrile illness caused by Orientia Tsutsugamushi commonly occur in zoonosis endemic in the Asia Pacific region. It is also called as tsutsugamushi disease or rural typhus. The disease is transmitted by the bites of infected Leptotrombidium mites also known as chiggers. Although the majority of scrub typhus is known to be more common in rural areas, there are reported cases of acute infection and serological evidence of infection in metropolitan cities. Patients commonly had flu-like symptoms such as fever, headache, abdominal pain, and myalgia lasting approximately one week. Scrub typhus is an important differential diagnosis in patients with acute febrile illness in South East Asia. The lack of diagnostic test for scrub typhus particularly in rural hospital impose a major challenge for clinicians. Clinicians must have a high index suspicion of scrub typhus, especially for patients who live or travel to the endemic region. Failure to diagnose scrub typhus results in delayed treatment and the patient will end up with serious complications such as multiorgan failure, disseminated intravascular coagulopathy and even death. Early diagnosis and appropriate management of scrub typhus is crucial. In a paper entitled 'A Case of Successful Treatment of Septic Shock Secondary to Scrub Typhus,' we described the case of a young man in a district hospital with unexplained fever and septic shock who was successfully treated with scrub typhus on the basis of clinical history, recreation exposure and presence of eschar. Scrub typhus is commonly distributed in the Tsutsugamushi triangle. This includes a very large area bounded by Japan in the east, through China, the Philippines, tropical Australia in the south and west through India and Pakistan. The scrub typhus vector is present in most countries of the South East Asia region and is endemic in certain geographical regions of those countries. The incubation period for scrub typhus is between six and twenty-one days. Human infection is initiated by bite of infected larval, also known as chigger. Endothelial cells are one of the primary cellular targets for Orientia tsutsugamushi during systemic infection. The multiplication of the organism at the site of inoculation results in vascular injury involving organs such as the kidney, liver, brain, skin, meninges and lungs. Patients develop rickettsemia within a few days and vascular injury in organs results in diffuse intravascular coagulation (DIC) with platelet consumption, vascular leakage, pulmonary edema, shock, hepatic dysfunction and meningoencephalitis.
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