Scrub Typhus Presenting with Bilateral Lateral Rectus Palsy in A Female

Scrub Typhus Presenting with Bilateral Lateral Rectus Palsy in A Female

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Scrub typhus, a rickettsial disease is endemic in several parts of India usually presenting with acute symptoms.Fever, maculopapular rash, eschar, history of tick exposure and supportive diagnostic tests usually leads to diagnosis.Scrub typhus should be included in the serra avatar price differential diagnosis in occasions when a patient presents with fever with or without eschar and isolated cranial nerve palsy.

Here we are reporting a case of Scrub typhus who presented with tillman 750m fever and altered sensorium of short duration, eschar formation and bilateral lateral rectus palsy.Patient was treated with doxycycline with complete reversal of neurodeficit.