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- Title
Scrub Typhus Leading to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome, Assam, India.
- Authors
Khan, Siraj A.; Bora, Trishna; Laskar, Basanta; Khan, Abdul M.; Dutta, Prafulla
- Abstract
To determine the contribution of Orientia tsutsugamushi, the agent of scrub typhus, as a cause of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) in Assam, India, we conducted a retrospective study of hospital patients with symptoms of AES during 2013-2015. Our findings suggest that O. tsutsugamushi infection leads to AES and the resulting illness and death.
- Subjects
ENCEPHALITIS; TSUTSUGAMUSHI disease; RICKETTSIAL diseases; BRAIN diseases; CENTRAL nervous system viral diseases; CENTRAL nervous system diseases
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017, Vol 23, Issue 1, p148
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
letter
- DOI
10.3201/eid2301.161038