Background Scrub typhus, a vector-borne zoonotic infection caused by the bacteria Orientia
tsutsugamushi, is one of the most common and clinically important rickettsial infections …

Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an increasing threat to global health. There
are> 14 million cases of enteric fever every year and> 135,000 deaths. The disease is …

Introduction Dengue is the most extensively spread mosquito-borne disease; endemic in
more than 100 countries. Information about dengue disease burden, its prevalence …

Background Sewage transmission of SARS-CoV-2 has never been demonstrated. During a
COVID-19 outbreak in Guangzhou, China in April 2020, we investigated the mode of …

Background Acute undifferentiated febrile illness (AUFI) is caused by a multitude of diverse
pathogens, with significant morbidity and mortality in the developing world. The objective of …

With the reemergence of scrub typhus, a high degree of clinical suspicion is required to
appropriately diagnose this disease which presents as an acute febrile illness. It can …

Background Acute febrile illness (AFI) is characterized by malaise, myalgia and a raised
temperature that is a nonspecific manifestation of infectious diseases in the tropics. The lack …

Background Increasing evidence is becoming available on the aetiology and management
of fevers in Asia; the importance of these fevers has increased with the decline in the …

Using a large, passive, febrile surveillance program in Iquitos, Peru, we retrospectively
tested human blood specimens for scrub typhus group orientiae by ELISA …

Background We conducted a diagnostic surveillance study to identify Plasmodium, dengue
virus, chikungunya virus, and Orientia tsutsugamushi infections among febrile patients who …