Emergence of Orientia tsutsugamushi as an important cause of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome in India.

• Main Authors: Parul Jain (Author), Shantanu Prakash (Author), Piyush K Tripathi (Author), Archana Chauhan (Author), Shikha Gupta (Author), Umesh Sharma (Author), Anil K Jaiswal (Author), Devraj Sharma (Author), Amita Jain (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) is a major seasonal public health problem in Bihar, India. Despite efforts of the Bihar health department and the Government of India, burden and mortality of AES cases have not decreased, and definitive etiologies for the illness have yet to be identified.The prese...