Review on Scrub Typhus: An Important Etiology of Acute Undifferentiated Fever Illness

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Khairkar, Mihika [1 ]
Vagha, Sunita [2 ]
Deotale, Vijayshri [3 ]
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[1] Datta Meghe Inst Med Sci, Jawaharlal Nehru Med Coll, Microbiol, Wardha, India
[2] Datta Meghe Inst Med Sci, Jawaharlal Nehru Med Coll, Pathol, Wardha, India
[3] Mahatma Gandhi Inst Med Sci, Microbiol, Wardha, India
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pyrexia of unknown origin (puo); acute undifferentiated febrile illness; vector-borne; febrile illness; scrubtyphus; FEBRILE ILLNESS; DISEASES; CHILDREN;
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10.7759/cureus.47290
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R5 [内科学];
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1002 ; 100201 ;
摘要
One of India's predominant public health issues is acute undifferentiated fever illness (AUFI), a typical response to an infectious agent. Diagnosis becomes challenging when the disease has been reported with fever as the primary symptom. Among the cases presenting at a tertiary care hospital in central India, 88% had an acute undifferentiated fever, the most common being dengue infection. In India, rural communities are at more risk from AUFI than cities. Most of those in danger are those who reside in remote areas, and one of the most significant risks is for those who reside close to forests. AUFI is a complex condition for physicians to deal with and is one of the most frequent clinical conditions for which empirical treatment is required. Nowadays, AUFI can be managed by a syndromic approach with the judicial use of antibiotics.Symptoms of AUFI, along with myalgia, headache, and anorexia, can be caused by various illnesses. Patients are recommended to undertake a battery of investigations, which may delay the therapy and increase expenses because many diseases may present with the same symptoms. In the developed world, viral illness is the primary cause of AUFI. However, in developing countries like India, it can also be brought on by potentially curable but life-threatening conditions such as malaria, leptospirosis, hantavirus infection, and Japanese encephalitis. Lack of knowledge of the locally prevalent illnesses, which might be the cause of AUFI, and lack of preliminary screening and diagnostics at the point of care to identify the etiologies make it difficult to control these generally curable causes of the burden of AUFI, especially in tropical and subtropical countries. A deeper understanding of AUFI is required to develop better diagnostics and cures for various etiologies, especially scrub typhus.
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