Murine Typhus and Febrile Illness, Nepal

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Zimmerman, Mark D. ; Murdoch, David R. ; Rozmajzl, Patrick J. ; Basnyat, Buddha ; Woods, Christopher W. ; Richards, Allen L. ; Belbase, Ram Hari ; Hammer, David A. ; Anderson, Trevor P. ; Reller, L. Barth
• Description:
  Murine typhus was diagnosed by PCR in 50 (7%) of 756 adults with febrile illness seeking treatment at Patan Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal. Of patients with murine typhus, 64% were women, 86% were residents of Kathmandu, and 90% were unwell during the winter. No characteristics clearly distinguished typhus patients from those with blood culture-positive enteric fever.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, 80 And Over Cohort Studies Diagnosis, Differential Dispatch Female Fever Humans Male Middle Aged Murine Typhus Nepal PCR Polymerase Chain Reaction Rickettsia Typhi Typhoid Typhoid Fever Typhus, Endemic Flea-Borne

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 14(10):1656-1659
• Pubmed ID:
  18826840
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC2609894
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  14
• Issue:
  10
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a809b3f80deae94dd953d0c8dfc22ad5f349e969fdb401499773a7f69ff352f2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/17234/cdc_17234_DS1.pdf
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