The Misdiagnosis Literature of Single Disease in the Misdiagnosed Disease Database of China from 2005 to 2012:Tsutsugamushi Disease
ZHAO Chun-ling
YANG Zhen
RAO Li-xia
ZHANG Jian-feng
Abstract：Objective Tsutsugamushi disease or Scrub typhus is a natural focus disease. The prevalence of Tsutsuga-mushi disease is obviously seasonal and local, and sporadic. Although the eschars or ulcers or ulcers are characteristic, they are often hidden in the shelter areas of the body, and the clinical manifestations of Tsutsugamushi disease are complex and di-verse. Thus it easily results in misdiagnosis and missing diagnosis, leading to multiple organ dysfunction syndrome ( MODS) . We analyzed 117 misdiagnosis literatures of tsutsugamushi disease in the misdiagnosed disease database of China from 2005 to 2012. In result, the total number of the misdiagnosis of tsutsugamushi disease was 2888, which included 81 kinds of disease, among the top five of the misdiagnosis were the upper respiratory tract infection, pneumonia, typhoid, bronchitis and hemor-rhagic fever with renal syndrome. The first causes of misdiagnosis were inexperience, lack of awareness of tsutsugamushi dis-ease and interrogation, carelessness in physical examination. Strengthening the health education in population in endemic are-as, increasing the awareness of tsutsugamushi disease in physician, being careful to history and physical examination, and paying attention to differential diagnosis are the necessary to reduce the incidence of tsutsugamushi disease and prevent the misdiagnosis and missing diagnosis.
Keywords：Tsutsugamushi diseaseMisdiagnosisRespiratory infectionPneumoniaTyphoid
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 1-4 )