Table 1.
Criteria used to score patient diagnosis of scrub typhus applied to each publication.a
Fig 1.
Map showing numbers of records by country of scrub typhus cases from the literature included in this study.
Fig 2.
Flow chart used for scrub typhus case literature selection.
Fig 3.
Frequency of report records of scrub typhus cases as reported by country.
Fig 4.
Publications reporting scrub typhus cases included in this study from published reports for the years 1940–2015.
Table 2.
Published cases of scrub typhus in humans from studies conducted since 1940 by country.
Fig 5.
Opening screen of the scrub typhus VectorMap web application showing scrub typhus cases.
Map area in orange shows traditional endemic area [18]; red “+” indicates site of confirmed cases, green “x” indicates site of probable cases, blue dots indicate serosurveys of scrub typhus positive sites.
Table 3.
Published human seroepidemiological reports since 1981 of Orientia tsutsugamushi-specific antibody.