Scrub typhus presenting as an acute abdomen

Scrub typhus presenting as an acute abdomen

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Scrub typhus is a mite-borne BODY WASH VANILLA MINT infectious disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, which presents as an acute febrile illness with headache, myalgia, breathlessness, and an eschar, a pathognomonic sign, in a varying proportion of patients.However, this illness can present unusually with Reflectors fever and severe abdominal pain mimicking acute abdomen.A careful search for an eschar in all patients with an acute febrile illness would provide a valuable diagnostic clue and avoid unnecessary investigations and surgical exploration.