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Unsuspected Rickettsioses among Patients with Acute Febrile Illness, Sri Lanka, 2007

We studied rickettsioses in southern Sri Lanka. Of 883 febrile patients with paired serum samples, 156 (17.7%) had acute rickettsioses; rickettsioses were unsuspected at presentation. Additionally, 342 (38.7%) had exposure to spotted fever and/or typhus group rickettsioses and 121 (13.7%) scrub typh...

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Autores principales:	Reller, Megan E., Bodinayake, Champica, Nagahawatte, Ajith, Devasiri, Vasantha, Kodikara-Arachichi, Wasantha, Strouse, John J., Flom, Judith E., Østbye, Truls, Woods, Christopher W., Dumler, J. Stephen
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2012
Materias:	Dispatch
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3358078/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22516455 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1805.111563

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