Dengue epidemiology and molecular characterization of vector mosquitoes; Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in Mizoram, Northeast India.

Background: Dengue is the most important arboviral disease, and Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus are the major vectors. It is one of the most recent emerging diseases in Mizoram state with a fast-growing burden over the years. The present study aimed to explore the epidemiological patterns of dengue in Mizoram, and to identify vector mosquito species.

Assessment of knowledge, attitude, and practices toward malaria in the Lunglei district, Mizoram, North-East India.

Background: The western districts of Mizoram (Lunglei, Mamit, and Lawngtlai) are malaria hotspots. Understanding the knowledge, attitude, and practices of the tribal communities in Mizoram's western districts will aid the development of specific interventions.

Methods: An explanatory sequential mixed-method study was conducted from April to November 2023 in the Lunglei district.

Epidemiology of scrub typhus and other rickettsial infections (2018-22) in the hyper-endemic setting of Mizoram, North-East India.

Background: In the past decade, scrub typhus cases have been reported across India, even in regions that had no previous history of the disease. In the North-East Indian state of Mizoram, scrub typhus cases were first recorded only in 2012. However, in the last five years, the state has seen a substantial increase in the scrub typhus and other rickettsial infections.

Malaria hotspots and climate change trends in the hyper-endemic malaria settings of Mizoram along the India-Bangladesh borders.

India has made tremendous progress in reducing malaria mortality and morbidity in the last decade. Mizoram State in North-East India is one of the few malaria-endemic regions where malaria transmission has continued to remain high. As Mizoram shares international borders with Bangladesh and Myanmar, malaria control in this region is critical for malaria elimination efforts in all the three countries.

Seroprevalence of scrub typhus and other rickettsial diseases among the household rodents of Mizoram, North-East India.

In the last decade, scrub typhus, a zoonotic disease has emerged as a major health concern in Mizoram, a North-East Indian state that shares international borders with Myanmar and Bangladesh. Mizoram is a biodiversity hotspot and >85% of the state is under forest cover, which provides an ideal ecological niche for the rodents and mites to transmit scrub typhus and other rickettsial infections. Using the Weil-Felix test, a serosurvey of household rodents from 41 villages spread across all the 11 districts in Mizoram was undertaken to gather important insights on their role in disease transmission.

Serological Evidence of Scrub Typhus in Mizoram, North Eastern Region of India.

Objective: Differentiating scrub typhus from other acute febrile illnesses is difficult due to non-specificity of clinical symptoms and relative absence of eschar in Indian population. Antibody based serological tests are mainstay of scrub typhus diagnosis. To order to determine the performance of immunochromatography and IgM ELISA, immunochromatography and scrub typhus IgM ELISA were performed to detect the presence of antibodies against in acute serum of patients with acute febrile illness.