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ReviewMedical journal, Armed Forces India2019

Scrub typhus strikes back: Are we ready?

Rina Tilak, Renuka Kunte

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Review in Medical journal, Armed Forces India, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. A Review of Rickettsial Diseases Other Than Scrub Typhus in India.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2023
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  11. Molecular Detection of Multiple Genotypes ofTropical medicine and infectious disease · 2023
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  15. Infestation and seasonal fluctuation of chigger mites on the Southeast Asian house rat (International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2021
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  17. Representative Genotyping, Recombination and Evolutionary Dynamics Analysis ofFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2020
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  19. Medical Journal Armed Forces India: 75 years young!Medical journal, Armed Forces India · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Rina TilakScientist 'G', Department of Community Medicine, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 411040, India.
Renuka KunteProfessor & Head, Department of Community Medicine, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 411040, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Scrub typhus has struck back, albeit with renewed vigour, impacting areas with previously known endemicity as also impressing newer expanses. It is not surprising, therefore, that Scrub typhus has emerged as a leading cause of public health concern globally as well as in India, but are we ready to take on the challenge? Over the last decade, there has been a global increase in the number of outbreaks of Scrub typhus, be it the military occupied areas or the civil population at large. The innumerable outbreaks of Scrub typhus, although disconcerting, have nonetheless contributed phenomenally towards better understanding of the dynamics of scrub typhus. There have been significant contributions to awareness of the disease amongst medical professionals, scrub typhus as a cause of Acute Undifferentiated Febrile Illness (AUFI) and newer clinical manifestation - Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES), availability and advances in diagnostics and management, man-vector-pathogen interactions, new records of

Indexed as

Acute encephalitis syndromeAcute undifferentiated febrile illnessLeptotrombidiumOrientia tsutsugamushiScrub typhus

Identifiers

PMID30705472
PMCPMC6349656

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