| rickettsial disease in the peruvian amazon basin. | using a large, passive, clinic-based surveillance program in iquitos, peru, we characterized the prevalence of rickettsial infections among undifferentiated febrile cases and obtained evidence of pathogen transmission in potential domestic reservoir contacts and their ectoparasites. blood specimens from humans and animals were assayed for spotted fever group rickettsiae (sfgr) and typhus group rickettsiae (tgr) by elisa and/or pcr; ectoparasites were screened by pcr. logistic regression was used ... | 2016 | 27416029 |