Emerging infectious diseases, 2015-04, Vol.21 (4), p.688-691
2015
Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- High seroprevalence of antibodies against spotted fever and scrub typhus bacteria in patients with febrile Illness, Kenya
- Ist Teil von
- Emerging infectious diseases, 2015-04, Vol.21 (4), p.688-691
- Ort / Verlag
- United States: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2015
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- MEDLINE
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Serum samples from patients in Kenya with febrile illnesses were screened for antibodies against bacteria that cause spotted fever, typhus, and scrub typhus. Seroprevalence was 10% for spotted fever group, <1% for typhus group, and 5% for scrub typhus group. Results should help clinicians expand their list of differential diagnoses for undifferentiated fevers.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 1080-6040eISSN: 1080-6059DOI: 10.3201/eid2104.141387Titel-ID: cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_4ef7419d42de4e289b57e733e08955ba
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Antibodies, Bacterial - blood, Antibodies, Bacterial - immunology, Antigens, Bacterial - immunology, bacteria, Child, Child, Preschool, Dispatch, Female, Fever - epidemiology, Fever - immunology, Fever - microbiology, High Seroprevalence of Antibodies against Spotted Fever and Scrub Typhus Bacteria in Patients with Febrile Illness, Kenya, Humans, Infant, Kenya - epidemiology, Male, Middle Aged, Orientia tsutsugamushi - immunology, Population Surveillance, Prevalence, Rickettsia, Rickettsia - immunology, Rickettsia Infections - epidemiology, Rickettsia Infections - immunology, Rickettsia Infections - transmission, scrub typhus, Scrub Typhus - epidemiology, Scrub Typhus - immunology, Scrub Typhus - transmission, Seroepidemiologic Studies, seroprevalence, spotted fever, typhus fever, Young Adult