Scrub typhus is an under-recognized cause of acute febrile illness with acute kidney injury in India.

• Main Authors: Vivek Kumar (Author), Vinod Kumar (Author), Ashok K Yadav (Author), Sreenivasa Iyengar (Author), Ashish Bhalla (Author), Navneet Sharma (Author), Ritesh Aggarwal (Author), Sanjay Jain (Author), Vivekanand Jha (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>Infection-related acute kidney injury (AKI) is an important preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in the tropical region. The prevalence and outcome of kidney involvement, especially AKI, in scrub typhus is not known. We investigated all patients with undiagnose...