Volume 12, Number 10—October 2006
Dispatch
Scrub Typhus in Himalayas
Sanjay Mahajan*
, Jean-Marc Rolain†, Rajesh Kashyap*, Diprabhanu Bakshi‡, Vijay Sharma*, Bhupalngh Prasher*, Lalngh Pal*, and Didier Raoult†
, Jean-Marc Rolain†, Rajesh Kashyap*, Diprabhanu Bakshi‡, Vijay Sharma*, Bhupalngh Prasher*, Lalngh Pal*, and Didier Raoult†Table 1
MIF assay results from 21 patients with suspected scrub typhus, Himalayas, 2004*
| Patient no. | MIF titers (IgG/IgM) |
Outcome | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orientia Kato/Gilliam | Orientia Kawasaki | ||
| 1 | 128/0 | 512/0 | Died† |
| 2 | 128/0 | 256/0 | Improved† |
| 3 | 1,024/0 | 1,024/0 | Improved |
| 4 | 128/64 | 256/64 | Improved |
| 5 | 2,048/0 | 2,048/0 | Improved |
| 6 | 2,048/1024 | 2,048/1,024 | Improved |
| 7 | 1,024/128 | 512/128 | Improved |
| 8 | 2,048/64 | 512/0 | Improved |
| 9 | 512/0 | 512/0 | Died† |
| 10 | 2,048/0 | 2,048/0 | Improved |
| 11 | 1,024/256 | 1,024/256 | Improved |
| 12 | 256/128 | 512/256 | Improved |
| 13 | 2,048/0 | 2,048/0 | Improved |
| 14 | 0/128 | 0/128 | Improved |
| 15 | 512/256 | 256/256 | Died |
| 16 | 64/128 | 128/128 | Improved |
| 17 | 512/0 | 512/0 | Improved |
| 18 | 2,048/0 | 2,048/0 | Improved |
| 19 | 512/64 | 0/64 | Improved |
| 20 | 64/64 | 0/64 | Improved |
| 21 | 128/256 | 0/256 | Improved |
*MIF, microimmunofluorescence; Ig, immunoglobulin. IgM was considered positive at a titer of 64; IgG was considered positive at a titer of 128.
†Positive PCR result.
