"Despite cases being very common and treatable, scrub typhus is often overlooked as a possible cause when patients present with a fever. Diagnostic tests are available at major hospitals but not ...

Despite cases being very common and treatable, scrub typhus is often overlooked as a possible cause when patients present ...

The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea. In general the dry and dirty tongue ...

Rural communities are at high risk of potentially life-threatening scrub typhus infections, according to a study by ...

These features are used by clinicians to identify patients with suspected encephalitis ... One important yet largely ignored cause in Nepal is scrub typhus, which often causes outbreaks annually.

A study in Tamil Nadu, India, finds that scrub typhus is a common yet under-recognized cause of fever, affecting up to 10% of ...

Hospital studies suggest that scrub typhus is a leading cause of severe undifferentiated fever in regions across Asia where the disease is endemic, but the population-based incidence of infection ...

Among those who were infected, 8 per cent to 15 per cent developed fever which often required hospital care, researchers said ...

Scrub typhus is caused by the bacterium 'Orientia tsutsugamushi', which belongs to the rickettsia family. Severe illness due ...

A study of over 32,000 people living in Tamil Nadu, India suggests scrub typhus infection may affect up to 10% of rural populations annually and is a leading yet under-recognised cause of ...