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Leukemoid Reaction Associated with Scrub Typhus Infection: A Rare Case Report with a Review of Literature

Tatikonda Chandra Mouli, Rupali Patnaik, Priyanka Samal, Sarita Pradhan, Shakti Bedanta Mishra

Keywords : Fever with rash, Leukemoid reaction, Scrub typhus

Citation Information : Mouli TC, Patnaik R, Samal P, Pradhan S, Mishra SB. Leukemoid Reaction Associated with Scrub Typhus Infection: A Rare Case Report with a Review of Literature. 2022; 1 (1):23-25.

DOI: 10.5005/jp-journals-11006-0009

License: CC BY-NC 4.0

Published Online: 31-08-2022

Copyright Statement:  Copyright © 2022; The Author(s).


Abstract

Scrub typhus is a tropical disease caused by the rickettsia group of obligate intracellular bacterium, Orientia tsutsugamushi, which usually presents as fever with rash. Scrub typhus has a wide spectrum of involvement which include acute kidney injury, thrombocytopenia, leukopenia, and hepatopathy. Leukemoid reaction is a reactionary proliferation of white blood cells secondary to stress or infection. Leukopenia is scrub typhus norm, but our patient developed a lymphocyte-predominant leukemoid reaction. The patient had hypofibrinogenemia and platelet dysfunction, which was detected early by rotational thromboelastometry (ROTEM) analysis. We are bringing forward a case of scrub typhus with a leukemoid reaction.


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