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Year : 2022 | Volume
: 59 | Issue : 4 | Page : 303--311
Emerging trends of scrub typhus disease in southern Rajasthan, India: A neglected public health problem
Devendra Kumar, Saha Dev Jakhar
Department of Zoology, University College of Science, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
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Devendra Kumar
Department of Zoology, University College of Science, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur 313001, Rajasthan
India
Scrub typhus is the oldest known vector-borne zoonotic infectious disease in the world which is life-threatening for all age groups as it presents acute febrile illness along with multi-organ involvements and spread with the biting of infectious ‘Trombiculid mite’ (chigger mite). The pathogen of this disease is an obligatory coccobacillus gram-negative rickettsial bacteria Orientia tsutsugamushi. Scrub typhus disease was previously confined geographically only to the Asia Pacific region (tsutsugamushi triangle), but in recent years it has crossed its limit and has spread in other countries beyond the tsutsugamushi triangle and has become more hazardous for the community. The objective of this study is to explore the scrub typhus disease outbreak trends with existing information in southern Rajasthan state, India. This study concluded that scrub typhus disease is being re-emerged again and again in various Indian geographical regions with new species of vectors. The disease has been raised in tremendous amounts in Rajasthan within the last five years especially in the hilly zone and has led to major public health problems with other zoonotic diseases.
How to cite this article:
Kumar D, Jakhar SD. Emerging trends of scrub typhus disease in southern Rajasthan, India: A neglected public health problem.J Vector Borne Dis 2022;59:303-311
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Kumar D, Jakhar SD. Emerging trends of scrub typhus disease in southern Rajasthan, India: A neglected public health problem. J Vector Borne Dis [serial online] 2022 [cited 2023 Mar 28 ];59:303-311
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