Outbreak of scrub typhus in North India: a re-emerging epidemic.

We describe an outbreak of 45 cases from our tertiary care center in north India. This outbreak included city dwellers who had no history of travel to hilly areas. The classical feature of scrub typhus, the eschar, was also noted rarely in these patients. The changing epidemiology of scrub typhus should be kept in mind while attending patients with acute febrile illness.
PMID: 24557641 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Tropical Doctor - February 20, 2014 Category: Tropical Medicine Authors: Sethi S, Prasad A, Biswal M, Hallur VK, Mewara A, Gupta N, Galhotra S, Singh G, Sharma K Tags: Trop Doct Source Type: research