Emerging Infectious Diseases (Aug 2017)

Scrub Typhus as a Cause of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Mahima Mittal,
  • Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj,
  • Winsley Rose,
  • Valsan Philip Verghese,
  • C.P. Girish Kumar,
  • Mahim Mittal,
  • R. Sabarinathan,
  • Vijay Bondre,
  • Nivedita Gupta,
  • Manoj V. Murhekar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2308.170025
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 8
pp. 1414 – 1416

Abstract

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Outbreaks of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) have been occurring in Gorakhpur Division, Uttar Pradesh, India, for several years. In 2016, we conducted a case–control study. Our findings revealed a high proportion of AES cases with Orientia tsutsugamushi IgM and IgG, indicating that scrub typhus is a cause of AES.

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