The agro-climatic conditions, socio-economic situation, poor sanitation, low hygiene and
health standards in Nepal are major contributing factors to the emergence of scrub typhus in …

Background: Scrub typhus is a neglected tropical disease and is under reported from Nepal.
The objective of this study was to investigate the sero-epidemiology of scrub typhus in …

Background Scrub typhus is a largely ignored tropical disease and a leading cause of
undifferentiated febrile illness. It is caused by Orienfia tsutsugamushi. Scrub Typhus is …

J Vector Borne Dis 54, December 2017 370 23.7%) followed by 31–40 yr age group
(20.8%). The age groups of 1–10 and 41–50 yr showed least seropositivity (9.2% each). The …

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 …

Background Scrub typhus is a mite-borne infectious disease caused primarily by the
obligate intracellular bacteria Orientia tsutsugamushi, which is transmitted by chigger mites …

Methods: We mapped 709 patients from Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana who
were admitted to the Christian Medical College (CMC) Hospital, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, 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 …

To identify risk factors for scrub typhus in Darjeeling, India, we compared 62 scrub typhus
cases (acute fever with eschar and specific IgM) with 62 neighbourhood controls. Cases …

Scrub typhus is a mite-borne acute febrile illness caused by Orientia. tsutsugamushi, a
zoonotic bacterial infection common in the region known as the tsutsugamushi triangle. This …