case of scrub typhus-related acute lung injury confirmed by surgical lung biopsy

ABSTRACT

Scrub typhus is an acute febrile and zoonotic disease of lung injury due to scrub typhus were very scarce caused by Orientia tsutsugamush. Although scrub worldwide and most of them were obtained from autopsy. typhus can involve various organs, severe pulmonary We report a case of severe lung injury due to scrub typhus complications such as acute lung injury [ALI] have been whose histopathology was confirmed by surgical lung rare since the introduction of effective antibiotic therapy. biopsy in a mechanical ventilator-dependent patient. In addition, the reports that described the histopathology