Rickettsia Felis Infection, Tunisia

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2006 Feb 24

PMID 16494731

Citations 34

Authors

Abir Znazen

Jean-Marc Rolain

Adnane Hammami

Mounir Ben Jemaa

Didier Raoult

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Abstract

We report, for the first time, serologic evidence of Rickettsia felis and R. aeschlimannii infections acquired in Tunisia from 1998 to 2003. We found that most patients with antibodies against both R. conorii and R. typhi had serologic evidence of R. felis infection.

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