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SUBMITTER: Horton KC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4973201 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20160606 2
Of 49 workers at a Djiboutian abattoir, eight (16%, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 9-29) were seropositive against spotted fever group rickettsiae (SFGR), two (4%, 95% CI: 1-14) against typhus group rickettsiae, and three (6%, 95% CI: 2-17) against orientiae. One worker (9%, 95% CI: 2-38) seroconverted against orientiae during the study period. This is the first evidence of orientiae exposure in the Horn of Africa. SFGR were also identified by polymerase chain reaction in 32 of 189 (11%, 95% CI: ...[more]