Abstract
Scrub typhus is caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi and is transmitted to humans by an arthropod vector of the Thrombiculidae family. It is one of the most common re-emerging ricketssial infection in India and other South east Asian countries. Nearly a billion people are at risk with at least a million cases being reported from this region every year. It is distributed in the tsutsugamushi triangle which is distributed over a wide area of 13 million km2. Eschar is the characteristic lesion that starts as a vesicular lesion at the site of mite feeding.
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