Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2018)

Risk Factors for Acquiring Scrub Typhus among Children in Deoria and Gorakhpur Districts, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2017

  • Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj,
  • Ravi Vasanthapuram,
  • Leonard Machado,
  • Govindakarnavar Arunkumar,
  • Samir V. Sodha,
  • Kamran Zaman,
  • Tarun Bhatnagar,
  • Shafeeq K. Shahul Hameed,
  • Arun Kumar,
  • Jazeel Abdulmajeed,
  • Anoop Velayudhan,
  • Avinash Deoshatwar,
  • Anita S. Desai,
  • K. Hemanth Kumar,
  • Nivedita Gupta,
  • Kayla Laserson,
  • Manoj Murhekar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2412.180695
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 12
pp. 2364 – 2367

Abstract

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Scrub typhus is associated with outbreaks of acute encephalitis syndrome in Uttar Pradesh, India. A case-control study indicated that children residing, playing, or visiting fields; living with firewood stored indoors; handling cattle fodder; and practicing open defecation were at increased risk for scrub typhus. Communication messages should focus on changing these behaviors.

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