Volume 16, Number 3—March 2010
Dispatch
Novel Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis, Brazil
Mariana G. Spolidorio, Marcelo B. Labruna
, Elenice Mantovani, Paulo E. Brandão, Leonardo J. Richtzenhain, and Natalino H. Yoshinari
, Elenice Mantovani, Paulo E. Brandão, Leonardo J. Richtzenhain, and Natalino H. YoshinariTable
Rickettsia spp. serologic titers by immunofluorescent antibody assay for a Brazilian patient in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, 2009*
| Antigen | Titers |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19 |
May 22 |
Jun 4 |
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| IgM | IgG | IgM | IgG | IgM | IgG | |||
| Rickettsia rickettsii | 64 | 64 | 128 | 256 | 512 | 512 | ||
| R. parkeri | <64 | <64 | 256 | 256 | 1,024 | 512 | ||
| R. felis | <64 | <64 | <64 | 128 | <64 | 128 | ||
| R. amblyommii | <64 | <64 | 128 | <64 | 512 | 512 | ||
| R. rhipicephali | <64 | 64 | 128 | 256 | 512 | 512 | ||
| R. bellii | 64 | <64 | 256 | 128 | 512 | 512 | ||
*Ig, immunoglobulin.
