Emergence of Orientia tsutsugamushi as an important cause of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome in India.

Parul JainShantanu PrakashPiyush K TripathiArchana ChauhanShikha GuptaUmesh SharmaAnil K JaiswalDevraj SharmaAmita Jain

Published in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases (2018)

The highlights of this pilot AES study were detection of an infectious etiology in one third of the AES cases, multiple etiologies, and emergence of O. tsutsugamushi infection as an important causative agent of AES in India.

Keyphrases

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