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Serologic evidence of scrub typhus in the peruvian Amazon

Emerging Infectious Diseases (2017) 23(8) 1389-1391
DOI: 10.3201/eid2308.170050
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Abstract

Using a large, passive, febrile surveillance program in Iquitos, Peru, we retrospectively tested human blood specimens for scrub typhus group orientiae by ELISA, immu-nofluorescence assay, and PCR. Of 1,124 participants, 60 (5.3%) were seropositive, and 1 showed evidence of recent active infection. Our serologic data indicate that scrub typhus is present in the Peruvian Amazon.

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Kocher, C., Jiang, J., Morrison, A. C., Castillo, R., Leguia, M., Loyola, S., … Richards, A. L. (2017). Serologic evidence of scrub typhus in the peruvian Amazon. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 23(8), 1389–1391. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2308.170050

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