Volume 12, Number 2—February 2006
Research
Rickettsial Infections and Fever, Vientiane, Laos
Simaly Phongmany*, Jean-Marc Rolain†, Rattanaphone Phetsouvanh*, Stuart D. Blacksell*‡§, Vimone Soukkhaseum*, Bouachanh Rasachack*, Khamphong Phiasakha*, Surn Soukkhaseum*, Khamthavi Frichithavong*, Vang Chu*, Valy Keolouangkhot*¶, Bertrand Martinez-Aussel*#, Ko Chang*, Chirapha Darasavath*, Oudayvone Rattanavong*, Siho Sisouphone*, Mayfong Mayxay*#, Sisouphane Vidamaly*¶, Philippe Parola†, Chanpheng Thammavong*, Mayboun Heuangvongsy*, Bounkong Syhavong*, Didier Raoult†, Nicholas J. White*‡§, and Paul N. Newton*‡
Table 3
Serologic results of patients with serologic evidence for acute spotted fever rickettsioses admitted to Mahosot Hospital
| Patient no. | Immunofluorescence results (IgG/IgM admission sample, IgG/IgM convalescent-phase sample)* |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rickettsia japonica | R. helvetica | R. heilongjiangensis | R. slovaca | R. felis | R. honei | R. conorii† | "AT1"‡ | |
| 45 | 0/0, 1:256/1:128 | 0/0, 1:1,024/1:256 | 0/0, 1:1,024/1:128 | 0/0, 1:1,024/1:128 | 0/0, 1:256/1:256 | 0/0, 1:256/1:256 | 0/0, 0/1:256 | 0/0, 1:256/1:256 |
| 72 | 1:64/1:32 | 1:128/1:32 | 1:64/1:32 | 1:128/1:32 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 |
| 86 | 0/0, 1:64/0 | 0/0, 1:64/1:128 | 0/0, 1:64/0 | 0/0, 1:64/1:128 | 0/1:128, 0/1:128 | 0/0, 0/1:32 | 0/0, 0/1:32 | 1:128/0, 1:128/1:32 |
| 114 | 1:128/1:64 | 1:256/1:512 | 1:128/1:64 | 1:256/1:512 | 0/1:32 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 |
| 198 | 0/0 | 1:128/1:64 | 0/0 | 0/1:32 | 0/0 | 1:128/0 | 1:64/0 | 1:256/0 |
| 237 | 1:128/0 | 1:256/1:32 | 1:128/0 | 1:256/1:32 | 0/0 | 0/1:32 | 0/1:32 | 0/1:64 |
| 290 | 0/1:32, 0/1:32 | 1:64/1:32, 1:64/1:32 | 0/0, 0/0 | 0/0, 0/0 | 0/0, 0/0 | 0/0, 0/0 | 0/0, 0/0 | 0/1:32, 0/1:32 |
| 362 | 0/0, 0/0 | 1:16/1:16, 1:32/1:32 | 0/0, 0/0 | 0/0, 0/0 | 1:16/1:16, 1:16/1:32 | 0/0, 0/0 | 0/0, 0/0 | 0/0, 1:32/1:32 |
| 297 | 0/0, 0/1:64 | 0/0, 0/1:64 | 0/0, 0/1:64 | 0/0, 0/1:64 | 0/0, 0/0 | 0/0, 0/1:64 | 0/0, 0/0 | 0/0, 0/1:64 |
| 55 | 0/0, 1:64/1:32 | 0/1:64, 1:64/1:128 | 0/0, 1:64/1:32 | 0/1:64, 1:64/1:128 | 0/0, 1:256/1:128 | 0/0, 1:256/0 | 0/0, 1:64/0 | 0/0, 1:256/0 |
| 239 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 1:64/0 | 1:64/1:32 | 1:64/1:32 | 1:64/1:32 |
*Titers in boldface indicate the pathogen considered to be responsible for the serologic response.
†R. conorii subsp. indica.
‡Rickettsia "AT1" from Japan.
