Environmental, Occupational, and Demographic Risk Factors for Clinical Scrub Typhus, Bhutan

Autor:	Tandin Zangpo, Yoenten Phuentshok, Kezang Dorji, Chencho Dorjee, Sithar Dorjee, Peter Jolly, Roger Morris, Nelly Marquetoux, Joanna McKenzie
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2023
Předmět:	scrub typhus environmental risk factor occupational risk factor demographic risk factor clinical scrub typhus Orientia tsutsugamushi Medicine Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216
Zdroj:	Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 29, Iss 5, Pp 909-918 (2023)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	1080-6040 1080-6059
DOI:	10.3201/eid2905.221430
Popis:	Underdiagnosis and underreporting of scrub typhus has increasingly affected public health in Bhutan since its initial detection in 2008. Identifying scrub typhus risk factors would support early diagnosis and treatment for this nonspecific febrile disease, reducing the incidence of potentially fatal complications. We conducted a hospital-based, case‒control study during October‒December 2015 in 11 scrub typhus‒prone districts. We identified harvesting cardamom as the major risk factor (odds ratio 1,519; p
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