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Neurological manifestations of scrub typhus: A case series from Tertiary Care Hospital in Southern East Rajasthan

Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2020
Scrub typhus is an acute febrile infectious illness caused by rickettsia species Orientia tsutsugamushi. In recent years, scrub typhus has reemerged as a life-threatening disease in India Scrub typhus has diverse clinical manifestations ranging from a ...
Vijay Sardana, Prashant Shringi
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Chikungunya as a cause of acute febrile illness in southern Sri Lanka. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) re-emerged in Sri Lanka in late 2006 after a 40-year hiatus. We sought to identify and characterize acute chikungunya infection (CHIK) in patients presenting with acute undifferentiated febrile illness in unstudied rural and ...
Megan E Reller, Ufuoma Akoroda, Ajith Nagahawatte, Vasantha Devasiri, Wasantha Kodikaarachchi, John J Strouse, Robert Chua, Yan'an Hou, Angelia Chow, October M Sessions, Truls Østbye, Duane J Gubler, Christopher W Woods, Champica Bodinayake   +13 more
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Scrub typhus in a febrile patient and challenges faced in a diagnosis-constrained health centre: A case report

SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2023
Scrub typhus is an acute febrile bacterial illness and has a high mortality if left untreated. It is caused by bacterium called Orientia tsutsugamushi which is transmitted to humans as zoonosis by bite of chigger mites that are infected by the bacterium.
Tej Nath Nepal, Sonam Drukpa
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Use of Scatterplot Patterns Derived from Automated Haematological Analysers in the Diagnosis of Acute Febrile Illnesses [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2020
Introduction: Acute Febrile Illness (AFI) is common in the tropics and caused by diverse pathogens. Dengue, malaria, enteric fever and scrub typhus are few common causes of AFI in India.
Ronit Juthani, Debdatta Basu
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Correction: Pooled Cohort Profile: ReCoDID Consortium's Harmonized Acute Febrile Illness Arbovirus Meta-Cohort.

JMIR Public Health Surveill
Gómez G, Hufstedler H, Montenegro Morales C, Roell Y, Lozano-Parra A, Tami A, Magalhaes T, Marques ETA, Balmaseda A, Calvet G, Harris E, Brasil P, Herrera V, Villar L, Maxwell L, Jaenisch T, ReCoDID Arbovirus harmonization study group.   +16 more
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Scrub typhus presenting as an acute abdomen

Journal of Global Infectious Diseases, 2014
Scrub typhus is a mite-borne infectious disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, which presents as an acute febrile illness with headache, myalgia, breathlessness, and an eschar, a pathognomonic sign, in a varying proportion of patients.
PP Abhilash Kundavaram, Sohini Das, M Varghese George   +2 more
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Dengue and other common causes of acute febrile illness in Asia: an active surveillance study in children. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2013
Common causes of acute febrile illness in tropical countries have similar symptoms, which often mimic those of dengue. Accurate clinical diagnosis can be difficult without laboratory confirmation and disease burden is generally under-reported.
Maria Rosario Capeding, Mary Noreen Chua, Sri Rezeki Hadinegoro, Ismail I H M Hussain, Revathy Nallusamy, Punnee Pitisuttithum, Kusnandi Rusmil, Usa Thisyakorn, Stephen J Thomas, Ngoc Huu Tran, Dewa Nyoman Wirawan, In-Kyu Yoon, Alain Bouckenooghe, Yanee Hutagalung, Thelma Laot, Tram Anh Wartel   +15 more
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Point-of-Care Biomarkers to Guide Antibiotic Prescription for Acute Febrile Illness in Sub-Saharan Africa: Promises and Caveats

Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2020
Empiric malaria treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa has significantly decreased with the scaling-up of malaria rapid diagnostic tests; this coincided with a pronounced increase in empiric antibiotic prescriptions.
J. van Griensven, L. Cnops, Anja De Weggheleire, Steven Declercq, E. Bottieau   +4 more
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Emergence of Epidemic Dengue-1 Virus in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016
BACKGROUND:Dengue is a frequent cause of acute febrile illness with an expanding global distribution. Since the 1960s, dengue in Sri Lanka has been documented primarily along the heavily urbanized western coast with periodic shifting of serotypes ...
Champica K Bodinayake, L Gayani Tillekeratne, Ajith Nagahawatte, Vasantha Devasiri, Wasantha Kodikara Arachichi, John J Strouse, October M Sessions, Ruvini Kurukulasooriya, Anna Uehara, Shiqin Howe, Xin Mei Ong, Sharon Tan, Angelia Chow, Praveen Tummalapalli, Aruna D De Silva, Truls Østbye, Christopher W Woods, Duane J Gubler, Megan E Reller   +18 more
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Oropouche infection a neglected arbovirus in patients with acute febrile illness from the Peruvian coast

BMC Research Notes, 2020
To evaluate the frequency of infection caused by the Oropouche virus (OROV) in 496 patients with acute febrile disease (AFI), whose samples were obtained for the analysis of endemic arboviruses in a previous investigation carried out in 2016.
J. Martins-Luna, J. del Valle-Mendoza, W. Silva-Caso, Isabel Sandoval, L. D. Del Valle, C. Palomares-Reyes, H. Carrillo-Ng, I. Peña-Tuesta, M. Aguilar-Luis   +8 more
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