Clinical features of 21 pregnant women with scrub typhus / 中华全科医师杂志

Clinical data of 21 pregnant women with scrub typhus were analyzed retrospectively.They all had fever,13 of them with lymph nodes enlargement,12 with skin rashes,11 with eschar or ulcer,and 20 positive with Weil-Felix reaction.Oxytetracycline was given in 17 of them and other four were treated by azithromycin,with all cured.Seven of them gave natural childbirth at the 37th week of gestation,nine were aborted inductively,three aborted spontaneously and two delivered premature births.Scrub typhus was harmful to both pregnant women and their fetuses,early diagnosis and treatment are necessary for patients with it for avoiding exacerbation and reducing fatality.