Abstract:Background: Reports of human rickettsial infection in Indonesia are limited. This study sought to characterize the epidemiology of human rickettsioses amongst patients hospitalized with fever at 8 tertiary hospitals in Indonesia.Methods: Acute and convalescent blood from 975 hospitalized non-dengue patients was tested for rickettsia IgM and IgG by ELISA. Specimens from cases with seroconversion or increasing IgM and/or IgG titers were tested for rickettsia IgM and IgG by IFA and rickettsia genomes using primer… Show more
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