Laboratory Diagnosis of Scrub Typhus

Scrub typhus Meningoencephalitis in Children from a Tertiary Care Centre, Uttarakhand, India

Meningoencephalitis, a potentially fatal complication of scrub typhus is known to occur but has not been well documented in children. Objectives: To document the epidemiological, clinical and laboratory parameters of scrub typhus meningoencephalitis in children to help the clinician in clinching the diagnosis of scrub typhus infection from Kumaon region. Materials and methods: This is a prospec...

Study of Epidemiology, Clinical Profile and Laboratory Diagnosis of Scrub Typhus in and around Puducherry

Aim: To study epidemiology, clinical profile and laboratory diagnosis of scrub typhus in and around Puducherry. Materials and Methods: This is a single centre, cross sectional study at tertiary care hospital in Puducherry, India. Clinically suspected cases of scrub typhus among all patients of febrile illness over a period of two years were analyzed. Diagnosis was confirmed serologically by Wei...

The diagnosis of scrub typhus: an evaluation.

Scrub typhus is an endemic problem in Malaysia. Yet its diagnosis appears to depend heavily on the Wetl-Felix test as the more sophisticated diagnostic procedures are not available routinely. We therefore reviewed our experience with scrub typhus patients treated at the Melaka General Hospital from 1983 to April 1986, to identify those clinical features which are diagnostic of this rickettsial ...

Laboratory Diagnosis of Scrub Typhus

Diagnostic evaluation of rapid tests for scrub typhus in the Indian population is needed

BACKGROUND Owing to frequent outbreaks witnessed in different parts of the country in the recent past, scrub typhus is being described as a re-emerging infectious disease in India. Differentiating scrub typhus from other endemic diseases like malaria, leptospirosis, dengue fever, typhoid, etc. is difficult due to overlapping clinical features and a lower positivity for eschars in Asian populati...