| survey of rickettsial antibodies at two local sites and review of rickettsiosis in papua new guinea. | the status of rickettsial infection in papua new guinea (png) is unknown although several reports of typhus-like illnesses infecting predominantly white settlers and the allied troops during world war 2 were published between 1930 and 1945. we performed a serological survey for evidence of rickettsial infection by measuring rickettsia-specific antibody levels in the blood of 191 non-randomly selected papua new guineans living in port moresby (n=93) and in the highland villages of samberigi (n=98 ... | 2003 | 16450784 |