Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2006)

Scrub Typhus in Himalayas

  • Sanjay K. Mahajan,
  • Jean-Marc Rolain,
  • Rajesh Kashyap,
  • Diprabhanu Bakshi,
  • Vijay Sharma,
  • Bhupalngh Prasher,
  • Lalngh Pal,
  • Didier Raoult

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1210.051697
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 10
pp. 1590 – 1592

Abstract

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Himachal Pradesh state of India is situated in the outer Himalayan ranges. During the rainy season, several cases of acute febrile illness of unknown origin occurred. Orientia tsutsugamushi was identified as the causative agent by microimmunofluorescence and PCR. Two new genotypes of O. tsutsugamushi were identified in the region.

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