TY - JOUR AU - Thangaraj, Jeromie Wesley Vivian AU - Vasanthapuram, Ravi AU - Machado, Leonard AU - Arunkumar, Govindakarnavar AU - Sodha, Samir AU - Zaman, Kamran AU - Bhatnagar, Tarun AU - Hameed, Shafeeq Shahul AU - Kumar, Arun AU - Abdulmajeed, Jazeel AU - Velayudhan, Anoop AU - Deoshatwar, Avinash AU - Desai, Anita AU - Kumar, K. Hemanth AU - Gupta, Nivedita AU - Laserson, Kayla AU - Murhekar, Manoj T1 - Risk Factors for Acquiring Scrub Typhus among Children in Deoria and Gorakhpur Districts, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2017 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2018 VL - 24 IS - 12 SP - 2364 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Scrub typhus is associated with outbreaks of acute encephalitis syndrome in Uttar Pradesh, India. A case-control study indicated that children residing, playing, or visiting fields; living with firewood stored indoors; handling cattle fodder; and practicing open defecation were at increased risk for scrub typhus. Communication messages should focus on changing these behaviors. KW - acute encephalitis syndrome KW - scrub typhus KW - risk factors KW - Deoria KW - Gorakhpur KW - Uttar Pradesh KW - India KW - rickettsial diseases KW - bacteria KW - bacterial infection KW - Orientia tsutsugamushi KW - zoonoses DO - 10.3201/eid2412.180695 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/12/18-0695_article ER - End of Reference