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...

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Main Authors: Kocher, Claudine, Morrison, Amy C., Leguia, Mariana, Loyola, Steev, Castillo, Roger M., Galvez, Hugo A., Astete, Helvio, Flores-Mendoza, Carmen, Ampuero, Julia S., Bausch, Daniel G., Halsey, Eric S., Cespedes, Manuel, Zevallos, Karine, Jiang, Ju, Richards, Allen L.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4944934/