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Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Eight Novel Loci for Susceptibility of Scrub Typhus and Highlights Immune-Related Signaling Pathways in Its Pathogenesis

Cells, 2021
Scrub typhus is a fatal zoonotic disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi. This disease is accompanied by systemic vasculitis, lymphadenopathy, headache, myalgia, and eschar.
Yong-Chan Kim, Soriul Kim, Hee-Kwon Kim, Yi Lee, Chol Shin, Chang-Seop Lee, Byung-Hoon Jeong   +6 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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Scrub typhus in northern Thailand [PDF]

, 2022
Scrub typhus, a neglected infectious disease caused by obligate intracellular bacteria Orientia tsutsugamushi, is a major cause of acute non-malarial fever in the tropics.
Wangrangsimakul, Tri
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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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Seroprevalence and Clinical Features of Scrub Typhus among Febrile Patients Attending a Referral Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2021
(1) Background: Scrub typhus (ST) is endemic to Nepal. It is often underdiagnosed and misdiagnosed due to non-specific clinical presentation coupled with limited microbiological facilities, leading to adverse clinical outcomes. This study aimed to assess
Anil Pokhrel, Binod Rayamajhee, Saroj Khadka, Sandeep Thapa, Samjhana Kapali, Sher Bahadur Pun, Megha Raj Banjara, Prakash Joshi, Binod Lekhak, Komal Raj Rijal   +9 more
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Scrub typhus and depression: a nationwide cohort analysis

Journal of Translational Medicine, 2018
Background Studies on the relationship between depression and scrub typhus are limited. We conducted a retrospective cohort study to investigate whether scrub typhus is a risk factor for depression.
Ying-Chuan Wang, Chun-Hsiang Chiu, Cheng-Li Lin, Feng-You Lee, Kuang-Hsi Chang   +4 more
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Isolation of a novel Orientia species (O. chuto sp. nov.) from a patient infected in Dubai [PDF]

, 2010
In July 2006, an Australian tourist returning from Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), developed acute scrub typhus. Her signs and symptoms included fever, myalgia, headache, rash, and eschar.
Nuntipa Aukkanit, Nguyen, C, Nguyen, C., Blacksell, SD, Aukkanit, N, Ju Jiang, Allen L. Richards, Richards, A. L., Stenos, J., Daniel H. Paris, Jiang, J, Richards, AL, Graves, S., Stuart D. Blacksell, Stan Fenwick, Day, NP, Paris, Daniel, Stenos, J, John Stenos, Fuller, A, Andrew Fuller, Nicholas P. J. Day, Blacksell, S.D., Jiang, J., Chelsea Nguyen, Paris, D.H., Izzard, L, Graves, S, Fuller, A., Leonard Izzard, Stephen Graves, Aukkanit, N., Paris, DH, Fenwick, S., Day, Nicholas, Izzard, L., Fenwick, S, Day, N.P.J.   +37 more
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High Rates of Homologous Recombination in the Mite Endosymbiont and Opportunistic Human Pathogen Orientia tsutsugamushi [PDF]

, 2010
The study was funded by the Wellcome Trust. PS was supported by grants from the Wellcome Trust (073135) and British Infection Society.Orientia tsutsugamushi is an intracellular alpha-proteobacterium which resides in trombiculid mites, and is the ...
Feil, EJ, Sonthayanon Piengchan, Wuthiekanun Vanaporn, Stuart D Blacksell, Sharon J Peacock, Blacksell, SD, Bentley Stephen D., Sharon J. Peacock, Bentley, SD, Day, Nicholas P. J., Feil Edward J., Day Nicholas P. J., Stephen D. Bentley, Sonthayanon, P, Chierakul, Wirongrong, Stephen D Bentley, Blacksell, Stuart D., Chierakul Wirongrong, Piengchan Sonthayanon, Stuart D. Blacksell, Day, NP, Bentley, Stephen D., Nicholas P J Day, Holden, MT, Wirongrong Chierakul, Mathew T G Holden, Peacock, Sharon J., Feil, Edward J., Wuthiekanun, Vanaporn, Peacock, SJ, Edward J Feil, Wuthiekanun, V, Nicholas P. J. Day, Sonthayanon, Piengchan, Blacksell, Stuart, Vanaporn Wuthiekanun, Edward J. Feil, Chierakul, W, Peacock Sharon J., Day, Nicholas, Holden, Mathew T. G., Holden, Matthew, Blacksell Stuart D., Holden Mathew T. G., Mathew T. G. Holden   +44 more
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Acute Severe Calculous Cholecystitis with Multiorgan Failure Complicated by Scrub Typhus

Case Reports in Surgery, 2019
Scrub typhus is a febrile illness and can present with manifestations ranging from subclinical symptoms to multiorgan failure and death. Scrub typhus is a rare etiology of acute cholecystitis. A patient presenting with the features of acute cholecystitis
Suman Acharya, Jayant Kumar Yadav, Nischal Khanal, Raju Bhandari, Bikal Ghimire   +4 more
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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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