Paraclinical, clinical characteristics and treatment of scrub typhus at 108 Hospital (1998-2003)
- Author:
Nguyen Trong Chinh
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
scrub typhus
- MeSH:
Diagnosis;
Therapeutics;
Scrub Typhus
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
2004;474(3):61-64
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
In the Department of Communicable Diseases Hospital 108, 41 patients with srub typhus were diagnosed by Weil-Felix assay and dipsticks ELISA(+) were treated. Among them 22 by chloramphenicol 50mg/kg daily and 19 by doxycycline 200mg/daily in 7 days consecutively. Clinically, the common symptoms of the disease were prolonged fever (100%) in combining with head ache 100%, muscle pain 78.4%, erythema 34.7%. Doxycycline and chloramphenicol were the most efficient medicine.
