Clinical Usefulness of Eschar Polymerase Chain Reaction for the Diagnosis of Scrub Typhus: A Prospective Study

Abstract

The eschar PCR assay was useful as a rapid and reliable test to confirm the diagnosis of scrub typhus, even though the patients received treatment with appropriate antibiotics, such as macrolides, quinolones, and tetracycline, which are all active against Orientia and Rickettsia species.