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Volume 27, Issue 133, March 2023

Scrub typhus and dengue infected pregnancy: A rare encounter

Nidhi Avinash Patel¹, Kiran Borkar², Twisha Patel¹, Chinmay Patel³

¹Post Graduate Resident, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Datta meghe institute of higher education & research, Sawangi, Wardha, Maharashtra, India-442005
²Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Datta meghe institute of higher education & research, Sawangi, Wardha, Maharashtra, India-442005
³Senior Resident, Department of neurology, Institute of Neurosciences, Surat, Gujarat, India-395003

ABSTRACT

Pregnancy is associated with many physiological and biochemical adaptations in the body of the women. Many immunological changes occurring during various trimesters of pregnancy make pregnant women more vulnerable to infectious agents. Infections acquired during pregnancy adversely affect the maternal and foetal wellbeing. Immediate detection and treatment of infections play an important role for good maternal and foetal outcome. Scrub typhus also known as tropical Rickettsioses are one such rare bacterial infection caused by Orientia tsutsugamsuhi transmitted by mites. Similarly, dengue viral fever might also occur during pregnancy by the bite of aedes mosquito.

Keywords: Pregnancy, Acute undifferentiated fever, Rashes, Thrombocytopenia, Scrub typhus, Dengue