A case of availability bias for COVID-19 causing scrub typhus diagnostic errors.
Although patients with scrub typhus develop a maculopapular rash all over the body, patients with COVID-19 may also show a similar rash. At the first visit, we did not fully inspect his trunk and extremities under his clothes. Although scrub typhus and COVID-19 have some similar symptoms, an eschar is a characteristic symptom of the former, and careful inspection is important to distinguish between the diseases.
['Ihara|Shiichi|S|', 'Shikino|Kiyoshi|K|https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3721-3443', 'Ikusaka|Masatomi|M|']
scrub typhus diagnostic error COVID‐19