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Predictors of severity factors associated with severe scrub typhus among children in a Tertiary Care Hospital.
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Department of Pediatrics, IMS and SUM Hospital, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (deemed to be) University, K8, Kalinga Nagar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
Background Objectives: Scrub typhus is an acute febrile zoonotic disease caused by the obligate intracellular gram-negative bacteria Orientia tsutsugamushi. Growing data over the last few years on the Indian subcontinent suggest that it is one of the most widespread but under-reported diseases. The study aimed to document the clinical and paraclinical profile and evaluate complications of scrub typhus in severe and nonsevere pediatric age groups.
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Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, Cheonan 31151, Republic of Korea.
: This study explores the potential of using elevated levels of blood double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) as a diagnostic tool for severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) infection. : Blood samples from SFTS patients were collected, dsRNA was purified, and total dsRNA expression was quantitatively analyzed using a spiropyran-based method. Comparative analysis was performed using blood samples from healthy individuals and scrub typhus patients with similar symptoms.
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Second Department of Infectious Disease, Kunming Children's Hospital, Kunming, Yunnan, China; Yunnan Key Specialty of Pediatric Infection (Training and Education Program)/Kunming Key Specialty of Pediatric Infection, China; Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, Yunnan, China. Electronic address:
Predictors of Encephalitis in Children with Scrub Typhus-Associated Acute Febrile Illness.
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All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, 273008. Electronic address:
Scrub typhus (ST) is an emerging public health concern in India. Despite being treatable, 20-30% of acute febrile illnesses (AFI) progress to encephalitis in endemic regions. This study aimed to identify early markers for encephalitis development in children hospitalized with AFI and positive Orientia tsutsugamushi (Ots) serology.
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Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Inha University School of Medicine, Incheon, Korea.
Tsutsugamushi disease is a febrile mite-borne disease caused by . Before 1945, this disease had been prevalent in Niigata, Akita, and Yamagata prefectures for centuries, occurring in areas along major rivers in these prefectures every summer about a month after floods. The patients affected were farmers, possibly new settlers on reclaimed lands, who contracted the disease following bites of tiny red bugs.
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