Scrub typhus with visual hallucinations

Trop Doct. 2015 Apr;45(2):146-7. doi: 10.1177/0049475514565426. Epub 2014 Dec 30.

Abstract

The occurrence of psychiatric symptoms in scrub typhus is not commonly reported in literature. We present a case of scrub typhus with visual hallucinations.

Keywords: Himachal Pradesh; Orientia tsutsugamushi; Rickettsial diseases; psychosis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antibodies, Bacterial / blood
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Fever / etiology
  • Hallucinations / complications
  • Hallucinations / diagnosis*
  • Hallucinations / microbiology
  • Headache / etiology
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Orientia tsutsugamushi / immunology
  • Scrub Typhus / complications
  • Scrub Typhus / diagnosis*
  • Scrub Typhus / microbiology

Substances

  • Antibodies, Bacterial