SCRUB TYPHUS- A FORGOTTEN DISEASE- RE-EMERGENCE

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

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...

Acute hearing loss due to scrub typhus: a forgotten complication of a reemerging disease.

We describe 6 patients with scrub typhus who presented with acute hearing loss, a forgotten complication of this reemerging disease. They were admitted with fever of 10-14 days' duration and had clinical evidence of deafness and pneumonitis. Five patients had eschars, which prompted the diagnosis of typhus fever and led to early institution of treatment. Deafness has been described as a clue to...

Scrub-typhus.

Scrub typhus is an important emerging tropical infection that can have severe manifestations in children leading to intensive care admission. It is caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, a gram negative bacterium transmitted to humans by the bite of larval trombiculid mites. The organism is endemic in south-east Asia and the disease is reported from virtually all parts of India. The hallmark of this...

Scrub Typhus (Tsutsugamushi Disease) in Bombay

grassy terrain, camping sites, on banks of inundated rivers?in general exclusively from rural as opposed to urban areas, where the cases of typhus, when they occur, are 0X19 in type. In the present series, the diagnoses were made in the first instance during the course of routine examination of sera from pyrexial cases for evidence of typhus infection. A review of the clinical course of the dis...