National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
China-Burma-India field party of the United States of America Typhus Commission has reported their observations on scrub typhus in Assam and Burma in 1946. Recently, sporadic cases have been reported from areas of Assam covered with scrub forests. Here we report few cases of scrub typhus presented with acute febrile illness associated with typical skin lesion of scrub typhus. Three patients with acute febrile illness reporting to the local hospital of Dima Hasao district (old name North Cachar hills) of Assam were diagnosed as scrub typhus cases on the basis of clinical features and positive Weil-Felix test with OXK titre of 1:320 or more. Clinical features of the cases included fever, headache, body ache, malaise, difficulty in breathing and presence of eschar. None of the cases presented with rash and multisystem complications. All the cases showed a titre of more than 1:320 in Weil-Felix test and responded well to intravenous Cefotaxime and oral Doxycycline. Presence of scrub forests and the vectors in Assam leads to sporadic occurrence of the disease and can be a threat to re-emergence of the disease in Assam.
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