Sethi Sunil, Prasad Amber, Biswal Manisha, Hallur Vinay Kumar, Mewara Abhishek, Gupta Navneet, Galhotra Shipra, Singh Gagandeep, Sharma Kusum
Additional Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
Senior Resident, Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
Trop Doct. 2014 Jul;44(3):156-9. doi: 10.1177/0049475514523761. Epub 2014 Feb 20.
Scrub typhus is re-emerging in India. We describe an outbreak of 45 cases from our tertiary care center in north India. This outbreak included city dwellers who had no history of travel to hilly areas. The classical feature of scrub typhus, the eschar, was also noted rarely in these patients. The changing epidemiology of scrub typhus should be kept in mind while attending patients with acute febrile illness.
恙虫病正在印度再度出现。我们描述了印度北部一家三级医疗中心发生的一起45例病例的疫情。此次疫情包括没有前往山区旅行史的城市居民。这些患者中也很少见到恙虫病的典型特征——焦痂。在诊治急性发热性疾病患者时,应牢记恙虫病不断变化的流行病学情况。