Abstract:Background:Scrub typhus is a severely ignored tropical disease and a leading cause of undifferentiated febrile illness worldwide caused by infection of an obligate intracellular bacteria Orientia tsutsugamushi. It has been rapidly expanding in South Asian countries, although clear epidemiological information is not available from Nepal. After the 2015 earthquake in Nepal, a sudden upsurge in scrub typhus cases was reported. The objective of this study was to investigate scrub typhus and its causative agents in… Show more
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