Clinical and paraclinical profile, and predictors of outcome in 90 cases of scrub typhus, Meghalaya, India

In this study setting, approximately one-seventh (13.6 %) of the acute undifferentiated febrile illness were due to scrub typhus. Systemic complications were common (33.3 %). Serum creatinine >1.5 mg/dl was a predictor of MODS and mortality.