Rickettsial Illnesses as Important Causes of Febrile Illness in Chittagong, Bangladesh

Rickettsial Illnesses as Important Causes of Febrile Illness in Chittagong, Bangladesh

We conducted a yearlong prospective study of febrile patients admitted to a tertiary referral hospital in Chittagong, Bangladesh, to assess the proportion of patients with rickettsial illnesses and identify the causative pathogens, strain genotypes, and associated seasonality patterns. We diagnosed...

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Main Authors: Hugh W. Kingston, Mosharraf Hossain, Stije Leopold, Tippawan Anantatat, Ampai Tanganuchitcharnchai, Ipsita Sinha, Katherine Plewes, Richard J. Maude, M.A. Hassan Chowdhury, Sujat Paul, Rabiul Alam Mohammed Erfan Uddin, Mohammed Abu Naser Siddiqui, Abu Shahed Zahed, Abdullah Abu Sayeed, Mohammed Habibur Rahman, Anupam Barua, Mohammed Jasim Uddin, Mohammed Abdus Sattar, Arjen M. Dondorp, Stuart D. Blacksell, Nicholas P.J. Day, Aniruddha Ghose, Amir Hossain, Daniel H. Paris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018-04-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Bangladesh
scrub typhus
murine typhus
rickettsia
Orientia tsutsugamushi
Rickettsia typhi
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/4/17-0190_article

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