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Acute Renal Failure Due to Acute Tubular Necrosis Caused by Direct Invasion of Orientia tsutsugamushi

2007; American Society for Microbiology; Volume: 46; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1128/jcm.01040-07

1098-660X

Dong‐Min Kim, Dae Woong Kang, Jong O. Kim, Jong Hoon Chung, Hyun Lee Kim, Chi Young Park, Sung‐Chul Lim,

Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies

We describe a scrub typhus patient with acute renal failure for whom a diagnosis was made based on serology as well as immunohistochemical (IHC) staining and an electron microscopic examination (EM) of a renal biopsy specimen. For our case, we demonstrated by IHC staining and EM that renal failure was caused by acute tubular necrosis due to a direct invasion of Orientia tsutsugamushi.