Acute respiratory distress syndrome in paediatric scrub typhus

Trop Doct. 2021 Jul 9:494755211029146. doi: 10.1177/00494755211029146. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAcute respiratory distress syndrome is a life-threatening complication of scrub typhus; we sought to describe its mortality and associated factors, namely eschar, hepatomegaly and severe thrombocytopenia, in a retrospective study in India of 65 children.PMID:34238058 | DOI:10.1177/00494755211029146
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