The Paucity of Typical Pathology: An Autopsy Series of Typhus Group Rickettsiosis-Associated Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis [PDF]
PathogensMurine typhus (also called flea-borne or endemic typhus) is an undifferentiated febrile illness caused by the bacterium Rickettsia typhi. The disease, transmitted by rat and cat fleas, is endemic to seaboard regions worldwide. Recently, murine typhus has
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A review of the global epidemiology of scrub typhus
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2017 Scrub typhus is a serious public health problem in the Asia-Pacific area. It threatens one billion people globally, and causes illness in one million people each year. Caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, scrub typhus can result in severe multiorgan failure
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Scrub Typhus: No Longer Restricted to the Tsutsugamushi Triangle
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2018 Scrub typhus is the most important rickettsial disease in the world. Its previous endemic region was considered to be in Asia, Australia and islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans; this area was referred to as the Tsutsugamushi Triangle.
Allen L Richards
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Environmental Conditions and Mite Vectors Shape the Spatiotemporal Patterns of Scrub Typhus in Guangdong Province, Mainland China [PDF]
Tropical Medicine and Infectious DiseaseScrub typhus has emerged as a life-threatening and increasingly prevalent vector-borne disease. While the spatial and temporal distributions of scrub typhus have been studied by the research community, the main driving factors that influence the ...
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A case of acute pulmonary edema in scrub typhus: a rare complication with normal cardiac and renal function [PDF]
BMC Infectious DiseasesBackground Scrub typhus is a mite-borne rickettsial infection endemic to parts of Asia, including Sri Lanka, with a wide range of clinical manifestations.
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Endemic Scrub Typhus in South America
New England Journal of Medicine, 2016 Scrub typhus is a life-threatening zoonosis caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi organisms that are transmitted by the larvae of trombiculid mites. Endemic scrub typhus was originally thought to be confined to the so called "tsutsugamushi triangle" within the Asia-Pacific region.
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Scrub typhus with complications of acute myocarditis and cardiac tamponade in metropolitan areas: two case reports [PDF]
Kosin Medical Journal, 2023 Scrub typhus is known as one of the most common seasonal infections in endemic rural areas, but life-threatening cardiac complications in cases of scrub typhus are very infrequent.
Ki-Woon Kang, Wonho Kim
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A Case Series Of Scrub Typhus In Obstetrics [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2014 Scrub typhus is endemic and re-emerging in eastern and southern Asia. Illness varies from mild and self-limiting to fatal. Only few studies were published about its effect in maternal and neonatal outcome.
Poomalar G K, Rekha R
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A Spatiotemporal Database to Track Human Scrub Typhus Using the VectorMap Application.
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015 Scrub typhus is a potentially fatal mite-borne febrile illness, primarily of the Asia-Pacific Rim. With an endemic area greater than 13 million km2 and millions of people at risk, scrub typhus remains an underreported, often misdiagnosed febrile illness.
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Imported scrub typhus: first case in South America and review of the literature
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines, 2018 Background Scrub typhus is a neglected vector-borne zoonosis causing life-threatening illnesses, endemic in the Asian-Pacific region and, as recently discovered, in southern Chile.
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