- Title
- Scrub typhus outbreak in a remote primary school, Bhutan, 2014
- Creator
- Tshokey, Tshokey; Graves, Stephen; Tshering, Dori; Phuntsho, Kelzang; Tshering, Karchung; Stenos, John
- Relation
- Emerging Infectious Diseases Vol. 23, Issue 8, p. 1412-1414
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2308.162021
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Scrub typhus in Bhutan was first reported in 2009. We investigated an outbreak of scrub typhus in a remote primary school during August-October 2014. Delay in recognition and treatment resulted in 2 deaths from meningoencephalitis. Scrub typhus warrants urgent public health interventions in Bhutan.
- Subject
- scrub typhus; Bhutan; outbreak; meningoencephalitis; treatment; public health interventions
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1392893
- Identifier
- uon:33466
- Identifier
- ISSN:1080-6040
- Rights
- © 2017. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Language
- eng
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