Volume 13, Number 7—July 2007
Dispatch
Three Rickettsioses, Darnley Island, Australia
Nathan B. Unsworth*, John Stenos*
, Antony G. Faa†, and Stephen R. Graves*
, Antony G. Faa†, and Stephen R. Graves*Table
Rickettsial detection, Darnley Island, Australia, 2003–2004
| Patient | Serum sample no. 1 | Serum sample no. 2 | Orientia tsutsugamushi | Rickettsia australis | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Days after disease onset | SFG titer* | STG titer† | Days after disease onset | SFG titer* | STG titer† | |||||
| PCR | Culture | PCR | Culture | |||||||
| 1 | 7 | 128 | 512 | 170 | 128 | >1,024 | + | + | – | – |
| 2 | 10 | 128 | <128 | 33 | 128 | >1,024 | + | + | – | – |
| 3 | 3 | 256 | <128 | 133 | 256 | <128 | – | – | – | + |
*SFG, spotted fever group; antigens were R. honei, R. australis, R. akari, R. conorii, R. siberica, and R. rickettsii.
†STG, scrub typus group; antigens were the O. tsutsugamushi strains Gilliam and Kato.
