| Author(s) |
Ralph AP
Raines M
Whelan PI
Currie BJ
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| Publication Date |
2004-06
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| Abstract |
Scrub typhus is recognised as an important differential diagnosis of fever, rash and sepsis in patients with a history of travel to Litchfield National Park in the Top End of the Northern Territory (NT). All confirmed scrub typhus cases to date from the NT have visited the Park, but the presence of similar rainforest pockets elsewhere in the Top End suggested further infectious locations might be identified with increased tourism. We now report a case of serologically confirmed Orientia tsutsugamushi infection in a man who had not been within Litchfield Park, but had visited another discrete Top End rainforest area.
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| ISSN |
0725-3141
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| Link | |
| Publisher |
The Office of Health Protection in the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
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| Series |
Communicable Disease Intelligence
Vol. 28 No.2
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| Subject |
Rickettsial infections
Northern Territory
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| Title |
Scrub typhus in the Northern Territory: exceeding the boundaries of Litchfield National Park
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| Type of document |
Journal Article
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| Entity Type |
Publication
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