Open AccessScrub typhus: Overview of demographic variables, clinical profile, and diagnostic issues in the sub-Himalayan region of India and its comparison to other Indian and Asian studies
Author(s) -
Monika Pathania,
Fnu Amisha,
Paras Malik,
Vyas Kumar Rathaur
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_124_19
Subject(s) - medicine , scrub typhus , eschar , vomiting , abdominal pain , leptospirosis , typhus , pediatrics , surgery , pathology , virology
India is a tropical country with a high burden of febrile zoonotic/infectious illnesses, scrub typhus being such a cause with multiple epidemics reported from different regions of the country.