TY - JOUR
T1 - Risk factors for acquiring scrub typhus among children in deoria and Gorakhpur Districts, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2017
AU - Scrub Typhus Risk Factor Study Group
AU - Thangaraj, Jeromie Wesley Vivian
AU - Vasanthapuram, Ravi
AU - Machado, Leonard
AU - Arunkumar, Govindakarnavar
AU - Sodha, Samir V.
AU - Zaman, Kamran
AU - Bhatnagar, Tarun
AU - Shahul Hameed, Shafeeq K.
AU - Kumar, Arun
AU - Abdulmajeed, Jazeel
AU - Velayudhan, Anoop
AU - Deoshatwar, Avinash
AU - Desai, Anita S.
AU - Hemanth Kumar, K.
AU - Gupta, Nivedita
AU - Laserson, Kayla
AU - Murhekar, Manoj
AU - Shete, Vishal
AU - Prakash, M.
AU - Prakash, Surya
AU - Mani, Reeta
AU - Vijayalakshmi, R.
AU - Kumar, Narendra
AU - Premanjali,
AU - Sinha, Ujjawal
AU - Sharma, Gagan
AU - Kharnare, Hemant
AU - Jain, Abhishek
AU - Kathuria, Rachana
AU - Puttaraju, A. K.
AU - Gawande, Manish K.
AU - Tigga, Ashish
AU - Kumar, Vishesh
AU - Badgal, Rajesh
AU - Sayeed, Hamid
AU - Bajpai, Madhup
AU - Pareet, Prasanth
AU - Agre, Deepchand
AU - Kumar, Nishikant
AU - Papanna, Mohan
AU - Saroha, Ekta
AU - Yadav, Rajesh
AU - Prabhakaran, Aslesh
AU - Deval, Hirawati
AU - Patil, Gajanan
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research and a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Cooperative Agreement for Global Health Security to the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences.
Funding Information:
This study was funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research and a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Cooperative Agreement for Global Health Security to the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences. The Institutional Ethics Committee of the Indian Council of Medical Research National Institute of Epidemiology approved the study protocol. The CDC Center for Global Health Associate Director for Science reviewed the protocol and determined that CDC was not engaged.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/12
Y1 - 2018/12
N2 - Scrub typhus is associated with outbreaks of acute encephalitis syndrome in Uttar Pradesh, India. A case-control study indicated that children residing, playing, or visiting fields; living with firewood stored indoors; handling cattle fodder; and practicing open defecation were at increased risk for scrub typhus. Communication messages should focus on changing these behaviors.
AB - Scrub typhus is associated with outbreaks of acute encephalitis syndrome in Uttar Pradesh, India. A case-control study indicated that children residing, playing, or visiting fields; living with firewood stored indoors; handling cattle fodder; and practicing open defecation were at increased risk for scrub typhus. Communication messages should focus on changing these behaviors.
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U2 - 10.3201/eid2412.180695
DO - 10.3201/eid2412.180695
M3 - Article
C2 - 30457537
AN - SCOPUS:85056702579
SN - 1080-6040
VL - 24
SP - 2364
EP - 2367
JO - Emerging infectious diseases
JF - Emerging infectious diseases
IS - 12
ER -