In rare cases, scrub typhus infection can result in disseminated intravascular coagulopathy and hemophagocytic syndrome.

Rural populations are at high risk of contracting scrub typhus, a potentially life-threatening bacterial infection, according ...

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 ...

The Technical Brief outlines the worldwide burden of encephalitis, key actions required to improve prevention ... such as Japanese Encephalitis and Scrub Typhus which are more prevalent in ...

Scrub typhus, a mite-borne bacterial infection, may be a major yet under-recognised cause of fever-related hospitalisations in India, researchers have cautioned after estimating that 10 per cent 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 ...

New Delhi: Affecting around a tenth of rural populations in India every year, 'scrub typhus' infection, spread by the bite of an infected larval mite (chigger), could be an "under-recognised ...

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A recent study has revealed that scrub typhus infection could be an “under-recognised” leading cause of hospitalisations for fever, accounting for almost 30 per cent of the cases. The study ...