A clinical case of severe scrub typhus (Tsutsugamushi fever)


DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18565/epidem.2023.13.1.94-8

Kharlamova T.V., Golub V.P., Barysheva I.V., Polovinkina N.A., Filippov P.G., Korchagina M.V.

1) Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russia; 2) A.I. Evdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, Moscow, Russia; 3) Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital Two, Moscow City Healthcare Department, Moscow, Russia
The development of tourism, migration processes create favorable conditions for the importation of communicable and parasitic diseases from the endemic and natural foci to the non-endemic areas. The lack of alertness of healthcare workers to tick-borne rickettsioses leads to difficulties in their diagnosis, despite the presence of characteristic clinical manifestations. The paper considers cases of importation of rickettsial diseases and describes a clinical case of tsutsugamushi fever (scrub typhus) that is difficult to verify.

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About the Autors


Tatiana V. Kharlamova, Cand. Med. Sci., Assistant Lecturer, Department of Infectious Diseases with Courses of Epidemiology and Phthisiology, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russia; kharlamova-tv@rudn.ru https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4261-3000,
Veniamin P. Golub, Cand. Med. Sci., Associate Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases with Courses of Epidemiology and Phthisiology, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russia; golub-vp@rudn.ru; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4261-3000,
Irina V. Barysheva, Senior Teacher, Department of Infectious Diseases with Courses of Epidemiology and Phthisiology, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russia; barysheva-iv@rudn.ru; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3543-9086,
Nadezhda A. Polovinkina, Cand. Med. Sci., Associate Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases with Courses of Epidemiology and Phthisiology, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russia; polovinkina-na@rudn.ru; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3183-852X
Pavel G. Filippov, MD, Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, A.I. Evdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, Moscow, Russia; filipavel@mail.ru; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7672-9207;
Maria V. Korchagina, Infectiologist, Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital Two, Moscow City Healthcare Department, Moscow, Russia korchaginamv@ikb2.ru; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6175-6771,


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