SCRUB TYPHUS - A RE-EMERGING DISEASE: ESTIMATING THE BURDEN AND OUTCOME OF SCRUB TYPHUS IN A TERTIARY CARE CENTRE
- Professor, Dept of Microbiology, Army Hospital (R&R), Delhi Cantt-110010 New Delhi, India.
- Assistant Professor, Dept of Microbiology, Military Hospital, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.
- Assistant Professor, Dept of Microbiology Army Hospital (R&R), Delhi Cantt-110010 New Delhi, India.
- Associate Professor, Dept of Microbiology, Base Hospital, Delhi Cantt New Delhi, India.
- Professor, Dept of Microbiology, NIIMS, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
- Associate Professor Dept of Microbiology, Army Hospital (R&R), Delhi Cantt-110010 New Delhi, India.
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Background: Scrub typhus is regarded as an important cause of acute febrile illness. If not diagnosed early, it is often tends to be fatal.
Methods: A Prospective Observational study was carried out among patients reporting with fever in a tertiary care hospital at Delhi. Weil Felix test and rapid test for scrub typhus was performed on the patient samples.
Results: A total of 265 cases were screened for typhus group of fever, of these 26 (9.1%) patients (18 males and 8 females) were diagnosed having rickettsial fever. Out of these, 24 (92.3%) were diagnosed having scrub typhus fever.
Conclusions:In present study, we observed 9.1% seropositivity in acute febrile illness. We conclude that a simple Weil Felix test should be included in routine workup of fever cases and a strong suspicion should be there where other laboratory tests remain inconclusive in endemic areas like Delhi-NCR.
[Ashish Bahal, Sandeep Ninawe, Ann Mathew, Kanwaljit Kaur, Lavan Singh and Puneet Bhatt (2023); SCRUB TYPHUS - A RE-EMERGING DISEASE: ESTIMATING THE BURDEN AND OUTCOME OF SCRUB TYPHUS IN A TERTIARY CARE CENTRE Int. J. of Adv. Res. 11 (Oct). 238-241] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com
Dept of Microbiology, Army Hospital R&R, Delhi Cantt
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