Ecological and behavioural risk factors of scrub typhus in central Vietnam: a case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The risk factors for scrub typhus in Vietnam remain unknown. Scrub typhus caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi often presents as an undifferentiated febrile illness and remains under appreciated due to the limited availability of diagnostic tests. This tropical rickettsial illness is increasingly recognized as an important cause of non-malaria acute undifferentiated fever in Asia. This study aimed to investigate behavioural and ecological related risk factors of scrub typhus to prevent this potentially life-threatening disease in Vietnam.

Methods

We conducted a clinical hospital-based active surveillance study, and a retrospective residence-enrolment date-age-matched case-control study in Khanh Hoa province, Vietnam, from August 2018 to March 2020. Clinical examinatio

SUBMITTER: Tran HTD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8374119 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature