Outbreak of scrub typhus in North India: A re-emerging epidemic

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 156-159

  Sethi, Sunil ^a   Prasad, Amber ^a   Biswal, Manisha ^a   Hallur, Vinay Kumar ^a   Mewara, Abhishek ^a   Gupta, Navneet ^b   Galhotra, Shipra ^a   Singh, Gagandeep ^a   Sharma, Kusum ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b National Centre for Disease Control   (India)

Author keywords

Orientia tsutsugamushi; outbreaks; scrub typhus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INDIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; SCRUB TYPHUS; YOUNG ADULT; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; CHILL; COUGHING; DISEASE RE-EMERGENCE; DYSPNEA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEADACHE; HEPATOMEGALY; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MYALGIA; SHOCK; SPLENOMEGALY; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING;

ADULT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; SCRUB TYPHUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907270973     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0049475514523761     Document Type: Article

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