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

Emerging rickettsioses of the Thai-Myanmar border

Philippe Parola  1 , R Scott Miller, Philip McDaniel, Sam R Telford 3rd, Jean-Marc Rolain, Chansuda Wongsrichanalai, Didier Raoult
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Emerging rickettsioses of the Thai-Myanmar border

Philippe Parola et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2003 May.

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.

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