Open AccessEvidence of natural infection of Orientia tsutsugamushi in vectors and animal hosts – Risk of scrub typhus transmission to humans in Puducherry, South India
Author(s) -
Panneer Devaraju,
Bhuvaneswari Arumugam,
Iswaryalakshmi Mohan,
Mariselvam Paraman,
Manickam Ashokkumar,
Gunasekaran Kasinathan,
Purushothaman Jambulingam
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of public health/indian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2229-7693
pISSN - 0019-557X
DOI - 10.4103/ijph.ijph_130_19
Subject(s) - scrub typhus , orientia tsutsugamushi , mite , rodent , suncus , biology , trombiculidae , transmission (telecommunications) , pathogen , vector (molecular biology) , virology , veterinary medicine , rickettsia , rickettsiosis , immunology , medicine , acari , zoology , ecology , recombinant dna , biochemistry , virus , gene , electrical engineering , engineering
Scrub typhus infection is endemic in India and reported to be the major cause for acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) in humans. Periodic occurrence of scrub typhus cases and presence of pathogen in rodents were also reported in areas with human cases of scrub typhus in Puducherry.