Abstract
The Journal is the primary organ of Continuing Paediatric Medical Education in Sri Lanka. The journal also has a website. Free full text access is available for all readers.The Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is now indexed in SciVerse Scopus (Source Record ID 19900193609), Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region (IMSEAR), CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International Global Health Database), DOAJ and is available in Google, as well as Google Scholar.The policies of the journal are modelled on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines on Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is recognised by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) as a publication following the ICMJE Recommendations.
Highlights
Scrub typhus is prevalent among children presenting to this tertiary care hospital in Kolkata, India
Scrub typhus has re-emerged to be a global threat in India and globally[1]
A cross sectional observational study was conducted at the Department of Paediatrics, Institute of Child Health, Kolkata, from May 2015 to April 2016
Summary
Scrub typhus has re-emerged to be a global threat in India and globally[1]. Rickettsial infections are often underdiagnosed due to their nonspecific clinical presentation, limited awareness and lack of universal diagnostic facilities. Untreated cases may have fatality rates as high as 30-35%2. We published a small study three years ago, where we tried to demarcate the diverse clinical features of scrub typhus in five children[3]. This study found that except for generalised lymphadenopathy, most features of typhus like continuous fever, apathy, toxaemia and abdominal distension were almost similar to enteric fever, which is very common in India[3]
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