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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2024

Scrub Typhus Outbreak among Soldiers in Coastal Training Area, Australia, 2022.

Rebecca Suhr, Samantha Belonogoff, Fiona McCallum, James Smith, G Dennis Shanks

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Rebecca Suhr
Samantha Belonogoff
Fiona McCallum
James Smith
G Dennis Shanks

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A scrub typhus outbreak occurred among 24 soldiers from 2 Australian Defence Force infantry units following separate training events conducted in the same coastal location in tropical North Queensland, Australia, in June 2022. Seven soldiers visited a hospital, 5 requiring admission. Outbreak recognition was hampered by the geographic dispersion of soldiers after the exercise and delayed case identification resulting from such factors as prolonged incubation, cross-reactive serologic responses to other pathogens, the nonspecific symptoms of scrub typhus, and the illness's nonnotifiable status in the state of Queensland. Our investigation focused on personal protective measures in a subanalysis of 41 soldiers, revealing an association between scrub typhus infection and the use of doxycycline chemoprophylaxis and permethrin uniform dipping.

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Disease OutbreaksMilitary PersonnelScrub TyphusAdultAnti-Bacterial AgentsAustraliaDoxycyclineHumansMaleQueenslandYoung AdultAnti-Bacterial AgentsDoxycyclineAustraliabacteriachiggerinfectionLeptotrombidiumOrientia tsutsugamushioutbreakRickettsiaScrub typhussoldiers

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PMID39530857
PMCPMC11559576

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