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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 Disease
Scrub 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 ...
Peiwei Fan, Tian Ma, Ze Meng, Fangyu Ding, Shuai Chen, Mengmeng Hao, Jiaqi Li, Jun Zhuo, Jiping Dong, Wenqi Xie, Qian Wang, Tingting Kang, Kai Sun, Genan Wu, Yongqing Bai, Canjun Zheng, Dong Jiang   +16 more
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Antinuclear antibodies in scrub typhus: Transient occurrence during acute illness

Journal of Vector Borne Diseases, 2018
Background & objectives: The pathological hallmark of scrub typhus infection is focal or disseminated vasculitis. As with other infections, antinuclear antibodies (ANA) have been previously described in scrub typhus.
Maria Koshy, John Mathew, Reginald Alex, John Antony Jude, Ravikar Ralph, Thambu David Sudarsanam, Sowmya Sathyendra, J Visalakshi, John Victor Peter   +8 more
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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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Scrub Typhus [PDF]

Journal of Special Operations Medicine, 2020
Scrub typhus, also known as tsutsugamushi disease, is caused by Orientia sp. and approximately 1 million new cases are reported annually. This article discusses the importance of scrub typhus and its clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
Elena M, Crecelius, Mark W, Burnett
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Diagnostic Value of Neutrophil CD64 in Differentiating Scrub Typhus From Febrile Diseases. [PDF]

Immun Inflamm Dis
ABSTRACT Background Scrub typhus, lacks specific early symptoms, and traditional serological tests have low sensitivity. This study shows that CD64 has superior diagnostic performance compared to CRP and PCT in bacterial infections. Methods This retrospective study analyzed 242 febrile patients admitted to the Jiangsu Province (Suqian) Hospital ...
Su J, Chen J, Shen X, Zhang Y, Li W, Qi J, Zhong Q, Sun T, Shi S, Zhu F, Yan Y.   +10 more
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Impacts of meteorological factors on the risk of scrub typhus in China, from 2006 to 2020: A multicenter retrospective study

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023
Scrub typhus is emerging as a global public health threat owing to its increased prevalence and remarkable geographic expansion. However, it remains a neglected disease, and possible influences of meteorological factors on its risk are poorly understood.
Ling Han, Zhaobin Sun, Zhaobin Sun, Ziming Li, Yunfei Zhang, Shilu Tong, Shilu Tong, Shilu Tong, Shilu Tong, Tian Qin   +9 more
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SCRUB TYPHUS PRESENTING AS ACUTE PANCREATITIS: A RARE CASE

Gomal Journal of Medical Sciences, 2022
Scrub typhus is an insect-borne disease caused by Orientia sutsugamushi which may cause disseminated vasculitis and perivascular inflammatory lesions resulting in significant vascular leakage and cause end organ damage.
Amsa Palanikumar Goutham Kumar, Subramaniam Suresh Kanna, Dinesh Babu   +2 more
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Diagnosis of Scrub Typhus [PDF]

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2010
Scrub typhus is transmitted by trombiculid mites and is endemic to East and Southeast Asia and Northern Australia. The clinical syndrome classically consists of a fever, rash, and eschar, but scrub typhus also commonly presents as an undifferentiated fever that requires laboratory confirmation of the diagnosis, usually by indirect fluorescent antibody (
Koh, G, Maude, R, Paris, D, Newton, P, Blacksell, S   +4 more
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Massive splenomegaly in scrub typhus: A rare presentation

IDCases, 2020
Scrub typhus, an acute rickettsial febrile illness, is an emerging cause of prolonged fever and Pyrexia of Unknown Origin(PUO). Scrub typhus infection can have myriads of clinical manifestations ranging from mild asymptomatic disease to fatal multi-organ
Virendra Atam, Avirup Majumdar, D. Himanshu, Vivek Kumar, Isha Atam   +4 more
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Scrub typhus pneumonitis [PDF]

QJM, 2010
A 57-year-old male previously healthy patient presented with a 1-week history of fever. Two weeks ago, he went to Orchid Island, which is near the east coast of Taiwan for diving. One week later, he experienced fever, shaking chills, headache cough with yellowish sputum and mild dyspnea after returning from Orchid Island.
C-H, Chen, W-C, Liao, C-Y, Tu
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