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- Title
Multicenter GeoSentinel Analysis of Rickettsial Diseases in International Travelers, 1996-2008.
- Authors
Jensenius, Mogens; Davis, Xiaohong; Von Sonnenburg, Frank; Schwartz, Eli; Keystone, Jay S.; Leder, Karin; Lopéz-Véléz, Rogelio; Caumes, Eric; Cramer, Jakob P.; Chen, Lin; Parola, Philippe
- Abstract
We investigated epidemiologic and clinical aspects of rickettsial diseases in 280 international travelers reported to the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network during 1996-2008. Of these 280 travelers, 231 (82.5%) had spotted fever (SFG) rickettsiosis, 16 (5.7%) scrub typhus, 11 (3.9%) Q fever, 10 (3.6%) typhus group (TG) rickettsiosis, 7 (2.5%) bartonellosis, 4 (1.4%) indeterminable SFG/TG rickettsiosis, and 1 (0.4%) human granulocytic anaplasmosis. One hundred ninety-seven (87.6%) SFG rickettsiosis cases were acquired in sub-Saharan Africa and were associated with higher age, male gender, travel to southern Africa, late summer season travel, and travel for tourism. More than 90% of patients with rickettsial disease were treated with doxycycline, 43 (15.4%) were hospitalized, and 4 had a complicated course, including 1 fatal case of scrub typhus encephalitis acquired in Thailand.
- Subjects
RICKETTSIAL diseases; EPIDEMIOLOGY; TRAVEL hygiene; INFECTIOUS disease transmission; TSUTSUGAMUSHI disease
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009, Vol 15, Issue 11, p1791
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3201/eid1511.090677