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Volume 10, Number 4—April 2004

Dispatch

Murine Typhus with Renal Involvement in Canary Islands, Spain

Michele Hernández-Cabrera1*†, Alfonso Angel-Moreno1*†, Evora Santana*†, Margarita Bolaños*, Adela Francès*, Antonio-Manuel Martín-Sánchez*†, and Jose Luis Pérez-Arellano*†
Author affiliations: *Hospital Universitario Insular de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain; †Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain

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Table 1

Clinical findingsa

Clinical findings Location of study
Dumler, TX
1991 Silpapojakul, Thailand
1992 Bernabeu, Seville
1999 Fergie, TX
2000 Whiteford, TX
2001 Gikas, Crete
2002 Canary Islands
2003
n
 80
 137
 104
 30
 97
 83
 22
Fever
 98
 100
 100
 100
 100
 100
 100
Headache
 75
 41
 71
 77
 76
 88
 90
Rash
 54
 20
 62
 80
 63
 80
Arthromyalgia
 46
 44
 77
 57
 40
 45
 45
Hepatomegaly
 -
 24
 29
 -
 -
 22
 38
Cough
 35
 -
 25
 40
 15
 28
 28
Diarrhea
 26
 5
 5
 40
 33
 11
 18
Splenomegaly
 -
 5
 24
 -
 -
 23
 14
Bite
 39
 0
 3
 3,3
 34
 -
 13
Nausea/vomiting
 48
 3
 23
 43
 45
 18
 13
Abdominal pain
 23
 10
 -
 60
 27
 11
 13
Confusion 8 2 4 7 8 10 13

aData are expressed as a percentage; TX, Texas.

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1Drs. Hernández-Cabrera and Angel-Moreno contributed equally to the article.

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