ReviewResearch and reports in tropical medicine2017
Scrub typhus: risks, diagnostic issues, and management challenges.
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- Scrub Typhus-Associated Inflammatory Oligoarthritis Mimicking Tubercular Arthritis in an Endemic Setting.Cureus · 2026Article
- Eschar, enigma, and encephalopathy: a case series of atypical and fatal presentations of scrub typhus in young adults from Northern India.EXCLI journal · 2026Article
- Meteorological factors and normalized difference vegetation index drivers of scrub typhus incidence in Shandong Province based on a 16-year time-frequency analysis.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Scrub Typhus and Influenza A Co-Infection: A Case Report.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Acute Pancreatitis Associated with Scrub Typhus:Sultan Qaboos University medical journal · 2025Review
- A longitudinal molecular surveillance of genetic heterogeneity ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Hepatic dysfunction among scrub typhus Indian patients with acute undifferentiated febrile illness.Bioinformation · 2025Article
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- Changes in seasonality and sex ratio of scrub typhus: a case study of South Korea from 2003 to 2019 based on wavelet transform analysis.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
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- A Splenic Infarct in Scrub Typhus: A Rare Entity.Cureus · 2024Article
- The role of gut microbiota and the gut-lung axis in sepsis: A case study of a pregnant woman with severe rickettsial pneumonia and septic shock complicated by MODS.Clinical case reports · 2024Article
- Health facility-based prevalence of typhoid fever, typhus and malaria among individuals suspected of acute febrile illnesses in Southwest Region, Ethiopia.Frontiers in epidemiology · 2024Article
- Estimation of scrub typhus incidence and spatiotemporal multicomponent characteristics from 2016 to 2023 in Zhejiang Province, China.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Development and implementation of a strategy for early diagnosis and management of scrub typhus: an emerging public health threat.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Clinical profile and outcomes of pediatric scrub typhus associated with elevated hepatic transaminases.Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology · 2023Article
- Epidemiological analysis and risk prediction of scrub typhus from 2006 to 2021 in Sichuan, China.Frontiers in public health · 2023Review
- GroEL Chaperonin-Based Assay for Early Diagnosis of Scrub Typhus.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Scrub typhus is an acute febrile illness in the "tsutsugamushi triangle", transmitted by chiggers that can be treated effectively if detected early. Laboratory testing, including molecular and serological assays, is needed for confirming the diagnosis, especially in the absence of the pathognomonic eschar. In this review, factors that play a role in disease occurrence and clinical clues for diagnosis, in addition to risk factors contributing to disease severity, including mortality, are discussed in detail. Moreover, issues related to diagnostic assays, treatment, and mixed infections are also enumerated and described.
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