Scrub typhus and malaria co-infection causing severe sepsis

Trop Doct. 2014 Jan;44(1):43-5. doi: 10.1177/0049475513512640. Epub 2013 Nov 18.

Abstract

We report a case of dual infection of scrub typhus and malaria in a 48-year-old woman.

Keywords: Malaria; scrub typhus.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
  • Azithromycin / therapeutic use
  • Chloroquine / therapeutic use
  • Coinfection / complications*
  • Doxycycline / therapeutic use
  • Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
  • Female
  • Fever / etiology
  • Humans
  • Immunoglobulin M / blood
  • Malaria / complications*
  • Malaria / drug therapy
  • Middle Aged
  • Norepinephrine / therapeutic use
  • Orientia tsutsugamushi / isolation & purification
  • Plasmodium vivax / isolation & purification
  • Scrub Typhus / complications*
  • Scrub Typhus / drug therapy
  • Sepsis / drug therapy
  • Sepsis / etiology*
  • Severity of Illness Index
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Immunoglobulin M
  • Azithromycin
  • Chloroquine
  • Doxycycline
  • Norepinephrine