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Article: Murine typhus in children, South Texas (1).(DISPATCHES)(Clinical report)
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- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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Children from South Texas were evaluated for immunoglobulin G to Rickettsia typhi, the causative agent of murine typhus. Of 513 children, 8.6% of those 1-5 years of age, 13.3% of those 6-11 years of age, and 13.8% of those 12-17 years of age had positive results.
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Rickettsia typhi causes murine typhus in humans, a febrile illness with headache and rash. Despite the disappearance of R. typhi from most of the United States, 9-72 cases per year of murine typhus were reported to the Texas Department of State Health Services from 1994 to 2003 (1). An earlier study of 200 cases reported in Texas from 1980 through 1984 found that 29% of the patients ...
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