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SUBMITTER: Hamaguchi S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4426587 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20150316 5
A descriptive study on rickettsiosis was conducted at the largest referral hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam, to identify epidemiological and clinical characteristics of specific rickettsiosis. Between March 2001 and February 2003, we enrolled 579 patients with acute undifferentiated fever (AUF), excluding patients with malaria, dengue fever, and typhoid fever, and serologically tested for Orientia tsutsugamushi and Rickettsia typhi. Of the patients, 237 (40.9%) and 193 (33.3%) had scrub and murine typ ...[more]