title: Pure cerebellitis due to scrub typhus: a unique case report.
abstract: We report the case of a 24-year old Indian man who presented with: high fever; drowsiness; an eschar and gross cerebellar dysfunction with horizontal gaze nystagmus; ataxic speech; and truncal ataxia. Scrub typhus was diagnosed by serological tests. This is the first case of a pure cerebellar involvement as the only manifestation of scrub typhus in the published literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India.
authors.forename: Suman S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Karanth
authors.forename: Anurag
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Mukhyaprana
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Prabhu
mesh_terms: D002526:Cerebellar Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D004660:Encephalitis / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012285:Orientia tsutsugamushi; D012612:Scrub Typhus / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D055815:Young Adult