TY - JOUR
AU - Eremeeva, Marina E.
AU - Warashina, Wesley R.
AU - Sturgeon, Michele M.
AU - Buchholz, Arlene E.
AU - Olmsted, Gregory K.
AU - Park, Sarah Y.
AU - Effler, Paul V.
AU - Karpathy, Sandor E.
T1 - Rickettsia typhi and R. felis in Rat Fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis), Oahu, Hawaii
T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal
PY - 2008
VL - 14
IS - 10
SP - 1613
SN - 1080-6059
AB - Rickettsia typhi (prevalence 1.9%) and R. felis (prevalence 24.8%) DNA were detected in rat fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis) collected from mice on Oahu Island, Hawaii. The low prevalence of R. typhi on Oahu suggests that R. felis may be a more common cause of rickettsiosis than R. typhi in Hawaii.
KW - Murine typhus
KW - Rickettsia felis
KW - Rickettsia typhi
KW - molecular assays
KW - Hawaii
KW - dispatch
KW - United States
DO - 10.3201/eid1410.080571
UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/14/10/08-0571_article
ER - End of Reference