2024
DOI: 10.15212/zoonoses-2023-0028
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Scrub Typhus Diagnostics: The Present and the Future

S. Cheryl Lynnette,
Trishna Bora,
Susmitha Perumalla
et al.

Abstract: Scrub typhus, caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, is a vector-borne, zoonotic disease commonly occurring in a geographic region known as the ‘tsutsugamushi triangle’. Scrub typhus causes acute undifferentiated febrile illness (AUFI) with non-specific clinical features and is difficult to diagnose when a highly characteristic but not pathognomonic eschar is absent. Because the eschar is not always present, laboratory tests are required for diagnosis. Serological assays have been the mainstay of laboratory diagnos… Show more

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