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Title: Emerging rickettsioses of the Thai-Myanmar border. (Dispatches).
Author: Philippe Parola
Publication: Emerging Infectious Diseases (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2003
Publisher: U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases
Volume: 9 Issue: 5 Page: 592(4)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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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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Human rickettsioses known to occur in Thailand include mainly murine typhus and scrub typhus. Murine typhus is caused by Rickettsia typhi and is primarily maintained by fleas such as Xenopsylla cheopis, with various rodents reservoirs (1). Scrub typhus is caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi (formerly named R. tsutsugamushi), which is transmitted by the bites of the larvae of several species of trombiculid mites (commonly called "chiggers") (2).
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