High seroprevalence of antibodies against spotted fever and scrub typhus bacteria in patients with febrile Illness, Kenya.

Abstract

Serum samples from patients in Kenya with febrile illnesses were screened for antibodies against bacteria that cause spotted fever, typhus, and scrub typhus. Seroprevalence was 10% for spotted fever group, <1% for typhus group, and 5% for scrub typhus group. Results should help clinicians expand their list of differential diagnoses for undifferentiated fevers.

• Authors: Jacqueline W Thiga, Beth K Mutai, Wurapa K Eyako, Zipporah Ng'ang'a, Ju Jiang, Allen L Richards, John N Waitumbi
• Journal: Emerging infectious diseases (Emerg Infect Dis) Vol. 21 Issue 4 Pg. 688-91 (Apr 2015) ISSN: 1080-6059 [Electronic] United States
• PMID: 25811219 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Multicenter Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)

Chemical References

• Antibodies, Bacterial
• Antigens, Bacterial

Topics

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Aged
• Antibodies, Bacterial (blood, immunology)
• Antigens, Bacterial (immunology)
• Child
• Child, Preschool
• Female
• Fever (epidemiology, immunology, microbiology)
• Humans
• Infant
• Kenya (epidemiology)
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Orientia tsutsugamushi (immunology)
• Population Surveillance
• Prevalence
• Rickettsia (immunology)
• Rickettsia Infections (epidemiology, immunology, transmission)
• Scrub Typhus (epidemiology, immunology, transmission)
• Seroepidemiologic Studies
• Young Adult