Volume 12, Number 8—August 2006
Dispatch
Rickettsia felis in Xenopsylla cheopis, Java, Indonesia
Ju Jiang*, Djoko W. Soeatmadji†, Katherine M. Henry*, Sutanti Ratiwayanto‡, Michael J. Bangs‡, and Allen L. Richards*
Table
Detection of Rickettsia typhi and Rickettsia felis in flea pools by quantitative, real-time PCR, East Java, Indonesia
| Location and distribution of rodents and shrews | No. flea pools (total no. fleas)* | No. positive pools (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 kDa | R. typhi | R. felis | |||
| Rural (Mulyorejo) | |||||
| Rattus argentiventer (7.1%) | 1 (2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Rattus rattus (14.3%) | 2 (3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Rattus tiomanicus (57.1%) | 1 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Mus musculus (10.7%) | 1 (2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Chiropodomys gliroides (3.6%) | 0 | ||||
| Suncus murinus (7.1%) | 0 | ||||
| Total rural | 5 (8) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Suburban (Bandungrejosari) | |||||
| Rattus exulans (3.2%) | 1 (3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| R. rattus (74.2%) | 13 (32) | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| R. tiomanicus (19.4%) | 4 (9) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| C. gliroides (3.2%) | 1 (4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total suburban | 19 (48) | 1 (5.3) | 0 | 1 (5.3) | |
| Urban (Klojen) | |||||
| R. exulans (5.3%) | 1 (4) | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| R. rattus (68.4%) | 9 (28) | 4 | 3 | 1 | |
| R. tiomanicus (10.5%) | 2 (7) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Rattus sabanus (10.5%) | 2 (5) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| M. musculus (5.3%) | 1 (3) | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total urban | 15 (47) | 6 (40) | 5 (33.3) | 1 (6.7) | |
| Total | 39 (103) | 7 (18) | 5 (12.8) | 2 (5.1) | |
*Each pool of 1 to 5 fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis) came from a single animal.
