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. 2017 Jul 15:19:123-125.
doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2017.07.005. eCollection 2017 Sep.

Nationwide prevalence of Rickettsia felis infections in patients with febrile illness in Bangladesh

N F Chowdhury  1 , S K Paul  1 , M S Aung  2 , M A Hossain  1 , F Ahamed  1 , S Ahmed  1 , N Haque  1 , S A Nasreen  3 , S I Khan  4 , S M M Rahman  5 , A S M M Rahman  6 , F Ferdouse  7 , R Ahmed  8 , S M Sultan  9 , M U Ahmed  10 , N Urushibara  2 , N Kobayashi  2
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Nationwide prevalence of Rickettsia felis infections in patients with febrile illness in Bangladesh

N F Chowdhury et al. New Microbes New Infect. .

Abstract

From July 2015 to December 2016, the presence of rickettsial pathogens was investigated for 414 patients with unknown fever in eight places in all the divisions of Bangladesh. Rickettsia felis was identified in blood samples from all the regions (overall detection rate, 19.6%), suggesting nationwide prevalence of R. felis infections.

Keywords: 17 kDa antigen gene; Bangladesh; Rickettsia felis; prevalence.

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Geographical locations of the eight study sites in Bangladesh. Height of filled bar represents relative value of Rickettsia felis positive rate (%) as shown. Numbers of R. felis positive samples / total samples examined are indicated in parentheses.
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