Acute respiratory distress syndrome in paediatric scrub typhus

Sathish K Loganathan; Amol Jaybhaye; Nabaneeta Dash; Anu Punnen; Urmi Ghosh; Winsley Rose

doi:10.1177/00494755211029146

Acute respiratory distress syndrome in paediatric scrub typhus

Trop Doct. 2021 Oct;51(4):514-517. doi: 10.1177/00494755211029146. Epub 2021 Jul 9.

Authors

Sathish K Loganathan¹, Amol Jaybhaye², Nabaneeta Dash³, Anu Punnen⁴, Urmi Ghosh¹, Winsley Rose⁵

Affiliations

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatrics, CMC, Vellore, India.
² Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Paediatric Infectious Disease, CMC, Vellore, India.
³ Post-Doctoral Fellow in Paediatric Infectious Disease, CMC, Vellore, India.
⁴ Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics, CMC, Vellore, India.
⁵ Professor, Department of Paediatrics (Paediatric Infectious Disease), CMC, Vellore, India.

PMID: 34238058
DOI: 10.1177/00494755211029146

Abstract

Acute 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.

Keywords: India; Scrub typhus; acute respiratory distress syndrome; paediatrics.

MeSH terms

Child
Humans
India / epidemiology
Respiratory Distress Syndrome* / diagnosis
Respiratory Distress Syndrome* / etiology
Retrospective Studies
Scrub Typhus* / complications
Scrub Typhus* / diagnosis
Scrub Typhus* / epidemiology
Thrombocytopenia*