Discussion
Diagnosis With Brief Discussion
- Diagnosis
- Scrub typhus (tsutsugamushi disease)
- Radiologic Findings
- Diffuse interlobular septal and bronchovascular thickening and mild GGOs in both lung.
Bilateral pleural and pericaridal effusion.
- Brief Review
- Acute febrile illness caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi
Focal or disseminated vasculitis and perivasculitis
Multiorgan involvement: lungs, heart, liver, spleen, and CNS
Humans infected by bite of larval-stage chigger or trombiculid mite
Activity in mite-infested habitats (brush and grass), late fall (Oct
- References
- RadioGraphics 2007; 27:161
- Keywords
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Scrub Typhus (Tsutsugamushi disease) ,