Scrub typhus is a serious public health problem in the Asia-Pacific area. It threatens one
billion people globally, and causes illness in one million people each year. Caused by …

Scrub typhus, caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, is an important and neglected vector-borne
zoonotic disease with an expanding known distribution. The ecology of the disease is …

Scrub typhus and the rickettsial diseases represent some of the oldest recognized vector-
transmitted diseases, fraught with a rich historical aspect, particularly as applied to …

It is estimated that approximately one billion people are at risk of infection with obligate
intracellular bacteria, but little is known about the underlying mechanisms that govern their …

Scrub typhus is a potentially fatal rickettsiosis caused by Orientia species intracellular
bacteria of the genus Orientia. Although considered to be restricted to the Asia Pacific …

Scrub typhus is a mite-borne, acute febrile illness caused by the bacterium Orientia
tsutsugamushi. It is a re-emerging infectious disease of the tsutsugamushi triangle. Scrub …

Scrub typhus is the most important rickettsial disease in the world. Its previous endemic
region was considered to be in Asia, Australia and islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans; …

Background The causes of acute febrile illness (AFI) in Latin America are diverse and their
complexity increases as the proportion of fever due to malaria decreases, as malaria control …

Background The appropriate antibiotic treatment for severe scrub typhus, a neglected but
widespread reemerging zoonotic infection, is unclear. Methods In this multicenter, double …

Scrub typhus and its etiological agents, Orientia species, have been around for a very long
time. Historical reference to the rickettsial disease scrub typhus was first described in China …