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. 2015 Jun;21(6):1073-4.
doi: 10.3201/eid2106.141487.

Seroconversions to Rickettsiae in US Military Personnel in South Korea

Ju Jiang, Todd E Myers, Patrick J Rozmajzl, Paul C F Graf, Jean-Paul Chretien, Joel C Gaydos, Allen L Richards

Seroconversions to Rickettsiae in US Military Personnel in South Korea

Ju Jiang et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Jun.
No abstract available

Keywords: South Korea; US military; rickettsia; rickettsiosis; scrub typhus; scrub typhus group orientiae; seroconversions; spotted fever group rickettsiae; typhus group rickettsiae.

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Evidence of rickettsiosis or scrub typhus among US military personnel deployed to South Korea. Black bars indicate postdeployment serum samples from US military personnel with a titer ≥1:100 (seropositive) to typhus group rickettsiae (TGR), spotted fever group rickettsiae (SFGR), or scrub typhus group orientia (STGO) IgG, as determined by ELISA. White bars indicate personnel determined by paired serum sample analyses to have seroconversion or 4-fold rise in titer between predeployment and postdeployment serum samples, indicating evidence of infection with the corresponding pathogen during deployment.
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