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KMID : 0980720130320010103
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Keimyung Medical Journal
2013 Volume.32 No. 1 p.103 ~ p.106
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A Case of Colitis in Suspected Scrub Typhus from the Elderly
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Lee Jeong-Hun
Kim Jong-Hyun
Lee Kwang-Bok
Kang Hyoun-Mo
Nam Kwan-Woo
Lee Gye-Sung
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Abstract
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Scrub typhus is acute febrile disease transmitted by chigger infected by Orientia tsutsugamushi. Symptoms are untypical such as high fever, headache, muscle pain and show marked skin lesion so called eschar. We have seen 1 case of suspected scrub typhus with colitis. 65 years old male was admitted due to abdomen pain, fever, headache. He was first diagnosed as only colitis and was treated by antibiotics. After rediagnosed as suspected scrub typhus, we changed to appropriate antibiotics and the patient was recovered.
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KEYWORD
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Colitis, Scrub typhus
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