Association of Scrub Typhus in Children with Acute Encephalitis Syndrome and Meningoencephalitis, Southern India

Association of Scrub Typhus in Children with Acute Encephalitis Syndrome and Meningoencephalitis, Southern India

Scrub typhus is an established cause of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) in northern states of India. We systematically investigated 376 children with AES in southern India, using a stepwise diagnostic strategy for the causative agent of scrub typhus, Orientia tsutsugamushi, including IgM and PCR...

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Main Authors: Tina Damodar, Bhagteshwar Singh, Namratha Prabhu, Srilatha Marate, Vykuntaraju K. Gowda, A.V. Lalitha, Fulton Sebastian Dsouza, Sushma Veeranna Sajjan, Mallesh Kariyappa, Uddhava V. Kinhal, P.V. Prathyusha, Anita Desai, Kandavel Thennarasu, Tom Solomon, Vasanthapuram Ravi, Ravi Yadav
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2023-04-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
scrub typhus
acute febrile encephalopathy
central nervous system infections
encephalitis
Orientia tsutsugamushi
vector-borne infections
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/29/4/22-1157_article

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