Outbreak of scrub typhus in North India: a re-emerging epidemic
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Kusum Sharma; Amber Prasad; Gagandeep Singh; Shipra Galhotra; Sunil Sethi; Navneet Gupta; Abhishek Mewara; Manisha Biswal; Vinaykumar Hallur
- Source
- Tropical Doctor. 44:156-159
- Subject
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
animal structures
Orientia tsutsugamushi
Fever
India
Scrub typhus
Eschar
North india
Communicable Diseases, Emerging
Tertiary care
Disease Outbreaks
Young Adult
Epidemiology
medicine
Humans
Epidemics
Socioeconomics
integumentary system
biology
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Outbreak
Febrile illness
bacterial infections and mycoses
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
Infectious Diseases
Scrub Typhus
bacteria
Female
medicine.symptom
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 1758-1133
0049-4755
Scrub typhus is re-emerging in India. We describe an outbreak of 45 cases from our tertiary care center in north India. This outbreak included city dwellers who had no history of travel to hilly areas. The classical feature of scrub typhus, the eschar, was also noted rarely in these patients. The changing epidemiology of scrub typhus should be kept in mind while attending patients with acute febrile illness.