| scrub typhus in suburban bangkok: first cases. | three patients, two of whom had eschars, were admitted with fulminant febrile disease suggestive of scrub typhus. elevated igg and igm to rickettsia tsutsugamushi were detected in all three by ifa. the cases lived in widely separated areas of western bangkok where fruit trees are grown and claimed not to have left the areas of their homes during the estimated incubation periods. a field survey collected rodents, treeshrews, and mites fro around the homes of each case. r. tsutsugamushi was isolat ... | 1990 | 2126275 |
| seroprevalence of rickettsial infection in commensal rodents and shrews trapped in the bangkok metropolitan area. | murine typhus and scrub typhus are important human rickettsial diseases in thailand. small mammals, including many species of rodents and shrews, serve as the reservoir host of rickettsial diseases. rickettsia typhi can be transmitted to humans by fleas causing murine typhus, while infection with orientia tsutsugamushi causing scrub typhus in humans is transmitted by chiggers. the prevalence of rickettsial infection depends on the geographic area. the seroprevalence of antibody to r. typhi and o ... | 2003 | 12924799 |