Acute undifferentiated febrile illness (AUFI) constitutes the predominant cause of healthcare seeking in Odisha. This prospective study was conducted to analyse the clinical, epidemiological and laboratory profile of scrub typhus patients presenting with AUFI from January to December 2017. Four hundred and thirty-two samples were tested for dengue, malaria, scrub typhus and enteric fever. Scrub typhus was overall the most common cause of AUFI (26.3%, 114/432) followed by dengue (19.2%, 83/432). Eschar was seen in 6.1% of cases. Aetiologies of 38.6% of AUFI remained unidentified. In the present study, there was no mortality attributed to scrub typhus.

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患有急性未分化发热性疾病的住院患者中恙虫病的临床流行病学分析：印度东部的一项基于医院的研究。


急性未分化发热性疾病 (AUFI) 是奥里萨邦寻求医疗保健的主要原因。这项前瞻性研究旨在分析 2017 年 1 月至 12 月出现 AUFI 的恙虫病患者的临床、流行病学和实验室概况。对 432 个样本进行了登革热、疟疾、恙虫病和肠热病检测。总体而言，恙虫病是 AUFI 的最常见原因（26.3%，114/432），其次是登革热（19.2%，83/432）。 6.1% 的病例可见焦痂。 38.6% AUFI 的病因仍未确定。在本研究中，没有因恙虫病导致的死亡。