While it has historically been restricted to a geographic area in the Asia-Pacific called the "tsutsugamushi triangle," which has both intense humidity and scrub vegetation, that area is now ...

Scrub typhus is a potentially life-threatening infection caused by the bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi, which belongs to the ...

In this cohort study, scrub typhus was a common cause of febrile illness in rural South India, with an incidence of 6.0 cases per 1000 person-years. 2. Asymptomatic infection was widespread, with a ...