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Case Reports
. 2003 Oct;9(10):1341-3.
doi: 10.3201/eid0910.030278.

Flying squirrel-associated typhus, United States

Mary G Reynolds  1 , John S Krebs, James A Comer, John W Sumner, Thomas C Rushton, Carlos E Lopez, William L Nicholson, Jane A Rooney, Susan E Lance-Parker, Jennifer H McQuiston, Christopher D Paddock, James E Childs
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Flying squirrel-associated typhus, United States

Mary G Reynolds et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2003 Oct.

Abstract

In March 2002, typhus fever was diagnosed in two patients residing in West Virginia and Georgia. Both patients were hospitalized with severe febrile illnesses, and both had been recently exposed to or had physical contact with flying squirrels or flying squirrel nests. Laboratory results indicated Rickettsia prowazekii infection.

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