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Case 38. A 6-Year-Old Boy with Fever, Sore Throat, and a Crusted Wound on the Left Flank: Scrub Typhus

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  1. Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, MacKay Children’s Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

    Hsin Chi

  2. MacKay College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

    Hsin Chi

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  1. Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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    Ping-Ing Lee

  3. Pediatrics, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung City, Taiwan

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Chi, H. (2023). Case 38. A 6-Year-Old Boy with Fever, Sore Throat, and a Crusted Wound on the Left Flank: Scrub Typhus. In: Huang, YC., Lee, PI., Chen, PY. (eds) Paediatric Infectious Diseases. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7276-8_38

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