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. 2012 Feb;18(2):328-31.
doi: 10.3201/eid1802.111372.

Rickettsia felis infection in febrile patients, western Kenya, 2007-2010

Alice N Maina  1 , Darryn L Knobel, Ju Jiang, Jo Halliday, Daniel R Feikin, Sarah Cleaveland, Zipporah Ng'ang'a, Muthoni Junghae, Robert F Breiman, Allen L Richards, M Kariuki Njenga
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Rickettsia felis infection in febrile patients, western Kenya, 2007-2010

Alice N Maina et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2012 Feb.

Abstract

To determine previous exposure and incidence of rickettsial infections in western Kenya during 2007-2010, we conducted hospital-based surveillance. Antibodies against rickettsiae were detected in 57.4% of previously collected serum samples. In a 2008-2010 prospective study, Rickettsia felis DNA was 2.2× more likely to be detected in febrile than in afebrile persons.

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Figure 1
Locations of villages (brown shading in inset map) in Asembo area of western Kenya where the study was conducted, January 2007 through October 2008. Used with permission of Kenya Medical Research Institute/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Research and Public Health Collaboration.
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Figure 2
Age-stratified seroprevalence of IgG to rickettsiae among patients participating in population-based infectious disease surveillance, January 2007 through October 2008. Vertical lines indicate 95% binomial CIs.
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