Scrub typhus with visual hallucinations

Sanjay K Mahajan; Madan Kaushik; Rajiv Raina; Ravi C Sharma; Preyander Thakur; Jai Bharat Sharma

doi:10.1177/0049475514565426

Scrub typhus with visual hallucinations

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

Authors

Sanjay K Mahajan¹, Madan Kaushik², Rajiv Raina³, Ravi C Sharma⁴, Preyander Thakur⁵, Jai Bharat Sharma⁵

Affiliations

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, I. G. Medical College, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India sanjay_mahajan64@rediffmail.com.
² Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, I. G. Medical College, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India.
³ Professor, Department of Medicine, I. G. Medical College, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India.
⁴ Professor and Head, Department of Psychiatry, I. G. Medical College, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India.
⁵ Resident, Department of Medicine, I. G. Medical College, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India.

PMID: 25552462
DOI: 10.1177/0049475514565426

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