Acute encephalitis syndrome in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India - Role of scrub typhus

Affiliations

¹ Dept of Epidemiology, National Institute of Epidemiology, Indian Council of Medical Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Electronic address: mmurhekar@gmail.com.
² Dept of Pediatrics, Baba Raghav Das Medical College, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
³ Dept of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
⁴ Dept of Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Puducherry, India.
⁵ Dept of Medicine, Baba Raghav Das Medical College, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
⁶ Dept of Epidemiology, National Institute of Epidemiology, Indian Council of Medical Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
⁷ Dept of Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India.
⁸ National Institute of Epidemiology, Indian Council of Medical Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

Comment

Manoj V Murhekar et al. J Infect. 2016 Dec.

. 2016 Dec;73(6):623-626.

doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2016.08.014. Epub 2016 Sep 1.

¹ Dept of Epidemiology, National Institute of Epidemiology, Indian Council of Medical Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Electronic address: mmurhekar@gmail.com.
² Dept of Pediatrics, Baba Raghav Das Medical College, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
³ Dept of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
⁴ Dept of Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Puducherry, India.
⁵ Dept of Medicine, Baba Raghav Das Medical College, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
⁶ Dept of Epidemiology, National Institute of Epidemiology, Indian Council of Medical Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
⁷ Dept of Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India.
⁸ National Institute of Epidemiology, Indian Council of Medical Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

No abstract available

Comment on

Changes in acute encephalitis syndrome incidence after introduction of Japanese encephalitis vaccine in a region of India.
Ranjan P, Gore M, Selvaraju S, Kushwaha KP, Srivastava DK, Murhekar M. Ranjan P, et al. J Infect. 2014 Aug;69(2):200-2. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2014.03.013. Epub 2014 Mar 20. J Infect. 2014. PMID: 24657663 No abstract available.