TY - JOUR AU - Mittal, Mahima AU - Thangaraj, Jeromie Wesley Vivian AU - Rose, Winsley AU - Verghese, Valsan Philip AU - Kumar, C.P. Girish AU - Mittal, Mahim AU - Sabarinathan, R. AU - Bondre, Vijay AU - Gupta, Nivedita AU - Murhekar, Manoj T1 - Scrub Typhus as a Cause of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2017 VL - 23 IS - 8 SP - 1414 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Outbreaks of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) have been occurring in Gorakhpur Division, Uttar Pradesh, India, for several years. In 2016, we conducted a case–control study. Our findings revealed a high proportion of AES cases with Orientia tsutsugamushi IgM and IgG, indicating that scrub typhus is a cause of AES. KW - scrub typhus KW - India KW - Gorakhpur KW - Uttar Pradesh KW - acute encephalitis syndrome KW - meningitis/encephalitis KW - vector-borne infections DO - 10.3201/eid2308.170025 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/8/17-0025_article ER - End of Reference