Why the study?
The burden of scrub typhus in endemic areas is poorly understood, prompting an estimation of the proportion of community hospitalisations and outpatient visits for undifferentiated fever attributable to it.
What proportion of hospitalisations and outpatient visits for undifferentiated fever are attributable to scrub typhus in rural South India?
What proportion of hospitalisations and outpatient visits for undifferentiated fever are attributable to scrub typhus in rural South India?
Scrub typhus is an important cause of febrile hospitalisations in endemic communities, supporting empirical treatment for hospitalised cases but not necessarily for stable outpatients.
May support targeted scrub typhus testing in endemic undifferentiated fever; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.
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