BACKGROUND India is an integral component of "tsutsugamushi triangle" which depicts a part of the globe endemic to scrub typhus. Owing to frequent outbreaks witnessed in different parts of the country in the recent past, scrub typhus is described as a re-emerging infectious disease in India. The present study aimed to study the clinical and paraclinical profile, complications and predictors of ...

Scrub typhus is caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, characterised focal or disseminated vasculitis and perivasculitis which may involve the lungs, heart, liver, spleen central nervous system. The clinical picture severity of symptoms varies widely. neurological manifestations scrub are diverse. Meningoencephalitis classical manifestation but cerebellitis, cranial nerve palsies, plexopathy, transv...

We screened Orientia tsutsugamushi from 385 domestic rodents and 19 humans with scrub typhus in rural Tai'an District, Shandong Province, a new scrub typhus epidemic area in northern China. Sequence analysis identified 7 genotypes in the rodents, of which 2 were also identified in the humans.

Acute Q fever and scrub typhus are zoonoses endemic to southern Taiwan. Among the 137 patients with acute Q fever (89, 65.0%) or scrub typhus (43, 31.4%), we identified 5 patients (3.6%) who were co-infected with Coxiella burnetii and Orientia tsutsugamushi.

AIM To describe the clinical features, laboratory manifestations, complications in patients diagnosed with scrub typhus at a tertiary care hospital in south India. MATERIAL AND METHODS All cases of acute onset fever diagnosed to have scrub typhus August 2011 to December 2012 were analysed. Cases of scrub typhus confirmed by the well felix test with a titre of 1 in 80 or more and a positive im...

BACKGROUND Scrub typhus is an endemic disease in Asia. It has been a rural disease, but indigenous urban cases have been observed in Seoul, South Korea. Urban scrub typhus may have a significant impact because of the large population. METHODS Indigenous urban scrub typhus was epidemiologically identified in Seoul, the largest metropolitan city in South Korea, using national notifiable disease...

chigger fever, is a mite-transmitted zoonosis caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi. The vector is the larval stage (chigger) of the trombiculid mite (Leptotrombidium deliense and several other Leptotrombidium spp). The mites and the rodents that carry them serve as the major reservoirs1. Scrub typhus is widely prevalent in the ‘tsutsugamushi triangle’ region of the world spanning the Indian subcont...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Taiwan is an endemic area for scrub typhus. Recent increases have been noted in two other infectious diseases caused by obligate intracellular organisms, Q fever and murine typhus. These diseases usually present as an acute febrile illness with non-specific symptoms and are difficult to distinguish. This study describes the clinical manifestations and complications of cas...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Scrub typhus is a re-emerging mite-borne rickettsiosis, which continues to be underdiagnosed, with lethal consequences. The present study was conducted to determine the seasonality, clinical presentation and predictors of mortality in patients with scrub typhus at a tertiary care teaching hospital in northern India. METHODS Scrub typhus was suspected in patients attend...

Scrub typhus is an infectious disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi-induced systemic vasculitis, but the involvement of the gastrointestinal tract and the endoscopic findings associated with scrub typhus are not well understood. We performed a prospective study and recommend performing esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) for all possible scrub typhus patients, regardless of gastrointestinal sym...