Re-emergence of scrub typhus in northeast India

Scrub typhus in South India: a re-emerging infectious disease.

Scrub Typhus: Re-emerging Public Health Problem in India

Scrub Typhus is emerging as an important cause of fever of unknown origin and needs to be differentiated from other causes of febrile illnesses. During March to June 2014, a systematic search on ‘Scrub typhus’ was conducted to determine epidemiology and factors causing re-emergence of this disease in India. Scrub typhus is an acute, febrile, infectious illness caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, ...

Scrub Typhus--A Re-Emerging Infection.

chills and rigors, headache, vomiting, cough which are all non-specific. Out of all the patients with pyrexia of intermediate duration studied, 10 had hepatosplenomegaly and only 1 scrub typhus positive patient had the sign and 1 out of the total 92 patients had neck stiffness and he was positive for scrub typhus by PCR. None of them had an eschar which is supposed to be characteristic of ricke...

Scrub Typhus in the Karnal District of Punjab (India)

[This corrects the article on p. 621 in vol. 88.].

Scrub Typhus in the Kanal District of Punjab (India)