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A case report of pediatric scrub typhus presenting as acalculous cholecystitis during the non-epidemic season without eschar.
Travel Med Infect Dis
January 2025
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:
The Maturation of the International Health Crisis Response: The Polish Typhus Epidemic of 1916-1923 Compared to the African Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic of 2013-2016: Part I, the Polish Epidemic.
Epidemiologia (Basel)
December 2024
Division of Infectious Diseases, Medical Service, South Texas Veterans Healthcare System, 7400 Merton Minter Blvd, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA.
Poland suffered an epidemic of louse-borne typhus from 1916-1923, with 400,000 cases and more than 130,000 deaths. The causative factors were depressed economic conditions and a refugee crisis that engulfed Poland after World War I. The recognition of the epidemic in 1919 stimulated the creation of the League of Red Cross Societies (LRCS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMurine typhus: a re-emerging rickettsial zoonotic disease.
J Vector Ecol
December 2024
Urban and Public Health Entomology Program, Department of Agricultural Science and Plant Protection, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762 U.S.A.
Murine typhus, caused by , is re-emerging in many parts of the world. The disease is also called endemic typhus to differentiate from epidemic typhus (caused by ), and sometimes also named flea-borne typhus. Occasionally, literature sources will include as a causative agent of flea-borne typhus, but illnesses caused by are actually flea-borne spotted fever.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEpidemiological Changes in Acute Febrile Diseases after the COVID-19 Pandemic in Thailand.
Am J Trop Med Hyg
November 2024
Department of General Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Article Synopsis
- Acute undifferentiated febrile illnesses (AUFIs) in Thailand, including dengue and malaria, show varying case numbers before, during, and after COVID-19 preventive measures.
- Phase 2 (March 2020 to April 2022) saw a significant reduction in AUFI cases, while Phase 3 (May to December 2022) experienced a rise in malaria and leptospirosis.
- The study highlights how the prevalence of these diseases is influenced by the global pandemic and health interventions like masks and social distancing.
An Ecological Survey of Chiggers (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) Associated with Small Mammals in an Epidemic Focus of Scrub Typhus on the China-Myanmar Border in Southwest China.
Insects
October 2024
Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China.
Chiggers (chigger mites) are a group of tiny arthropods, and they are the exclusive vector of (Ot), the causative agent of scrub typhus (tsutsugamushi disease). Dehong Prefecture in Yunnan Province of southwest China is located on the China-Myanmar border and is an important focus of scrub typhus. Based on the field surveys in Dehong between 2008 and 2022, the present paper reports the infestation and ecological distribution of chiggers on the body surface of rodents and other sympatric small mammals (shrews, tree shrews, etc.
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