Emerging rickettsioses of the Thai-Myanmar border

Emerg Infect Dis. 2003 May;9(5):592-5. doi: 10.3201/eid0905.020511.

Abstract

To investigate the presence of rickettsioses in rural residents of the central Thai-Myanmar border, we tested the blood of 46 patients with fever. Four patients had murine typhus, three patients had scrub typhus, and eight patients had spotted fever group rickettsioses, including the first case of Rickettsia felis infection reported in Asia.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging / drug therapy
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging / epidemiology*
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging / microbiology
  • Doxycycline / therapeutic use
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Myanmar / epidemiology
  • Rickettsia / isolation & purification
  • Rickettsiaceae Infections / drug therapy
  • Rickettsiaceae Infections / epidemiology*
  • Thailand / epidemiology

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Doxycycline