financed in part by the National Research Council,Sri Lanka[NRC18-008];Research Grant No.[RP/03/04/06/02/2018]of University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka.
Objective:To assess public knowledge,practices and perceptions on typhus fevers in Sri Lanka.Methods:A descriptive study was done in four selected typhus-prone areas in Southern Sri Lanka.A mixed-method was employed u...
AIM To study the spectrum of cardiac manifestations in scrub typhus infection and assess its relationship to outcomes.METHODS Demographic data, electrocardiographic(ECG) changes, left ventricular (LV) systolic and dia...
Introduction: Scrub typhus is a febrile illness caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi which is transmitted by the larval stage of trombiculid mites. It has varied manifestations ranging from mild disease to fatal illness. ...
An increasing proportion of health professionals and scholars of the humanities is interesting to the Narrative Based Medicine. The terms used indicate a mode of coping with the disease aims to understand its meaning ...
Scrub typhus is a zoonosis caused by the pathogen Orientia tsutsugamushi(O.tsvtsugamushi). The disease has significant prevalence in eastern and Southeast Asia.Usually presenting as an acute febrile illness,the diagno...
supported by the National Basil Research Program of China(973 Program) 2010CBS30200(2010CB530206);the grants from the National Key Science and Technolog Projects of China,No.2009ZX10004-203 and 2008ZX10004-008)
Objective:To evaluate the detection of IgM and IgG antibodies to Orientia tsutsugamushi(O. tsutsugamushi) by rapid diagnostic test(RDT) and microimmunofluorescence assay(ml FA). Methods:RDT using a mixture of recombin...
A 79-year-old man was diagnosed with scrub typhus based on fever,eschar,skin rash and a markedly elevated serum tsutsugamushi antibody and doxycycline was started.Five days later,hematochezia developed and multiple sm...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No. 30771854);China-U.S.Collaborative Program on Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases(No. 1U2GGH000018-01)
Objective:To identify members of genera of rickettsia and O.tsutsugammhi simultaneously.Methods:Rapid and duplex and nested PCR methods have been established by designing primers based on the conserved regions of heat...
the grant from the National Key Technologies R&D Program(No.2003BA712A02)
Background Human rickettsioses are worldwide zoonoses and it is not easy to differentiate them from other infectious diseases because of their atypical manifestation. In recent years the number of patients with fever ...