Abstract
Dengue fever , scrub typhus ,chikungunya and leptospirosis are common infections in Asia that often present as acute febrile illness of unclear aetiology. Though dengue fever is often considered and investigated by the physicians in all such cases, other infections are often ignored . There is a need to investigate for scrub typhus which is a re-emerging disease in India. The present pilot study was undertaken to elucidate etiology of acute undifferentiated fevers and prevalence of scrub typhus among these patients admitted to the tertiary care hospital. Among the 100 patients studied ,39 samples were positive for dengue serology ,19 were found to be positive for antibodies to Orientia Tsusugamushi by Rapid immuno chromatography and
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