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Usefulness of eschar PCR for diagnosis of scrub typhus.
J Clin Microbiol. 2006 Mar; 44(3):1169-71.JC

Abstract

We report here on the case of a child who was infected with scrub typhus, and we made the diagnosis according to the serology and by performing PCRs on the child's eschar. The patient was treated with azithromycin, and he did not experience any complications. Performing nested PCR on the eschar might be both a rapid diagnostic test for scrub typhus in the early acute stage and a differential test as to whether or not a scab is a scrub typhus eschar.

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Lee SH
Department of Pediatrics, Seonam University College of Medicine, Gwangju, South Korea.
Kim DM
No affiliation info available
Cho YS
No affiliation info available
Yoon SH
No affiliation info available
Shim SK
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MeSH

Antigens, BacterialBacterial ProteinsBase SequenceChildDNA PrimersDNA, BacterialHumansMaleMembrane ProteinsOrientia tsutsugamushiPolymerase Chain ReactionScrub TyphusSkin

Pub Type(s)

Case Reports
Evaluation Study
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Language

eng

PubMed ID

16517922

Citation

Lee, Seung-Hyun, et al. "Usefulness of Eschar PCR for Diagnosis of Scrub Typhus." Journal of Clinical Microbiology, vol. 44, no. 3, 2006, pp. 1169-71.
Lee SH, Kim DM, Cho YS, et al. Usefulness of eschar PCR for diagnosis of scrub typhus. J Clin Microbiol. 2006;44(3):1169-71.
Lee, S. H., Kim, D. M., Cho, Y. S., Yoon, S. H., & Shim, S. K. (2006). Usefulness of eschar PCR for diagnosis of scrub typhus. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 44(3), 1169-71.
Lee SH, et al. Usefulness of Eschar PCR for Diagnosis of Scrub Typhus. J Clin Microbiol. 2006;44(3):1169-71. PubMed PMID: 16517922.
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