Volume 9, Number 4—April 2003

Dispatch

Scrub Typhus in the Torres Strait Islands of North Queensland, Australia

Antony G. Faa*, William J.H. McBride† , Gaynor Garstone‡, Robert E. Thompson*, and Peter Holt*

Author affiliations: *Thursday Island Hospital, Queensland, Australia; †Cairns Base Hospital, Queensland, Australia; ‡Darnley Island Health Centre, Queensland, Australia

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Figure 1

Figure 1. Eschar on the breast of a patient with scrub typhus during an outbreak on Darnley Island, Torres Strait.

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