Volume 18, Number 2—February 2012
Dispatch
Rickettsia felis Infection in Febrile Patients, Western Kenya, 2007–2010
Alice N. Maina, Darryn L. Knobel, Ju Jiang, Jo Halliday, Daniel R. Feikin, Sarah Cleaveland, Zipporah Ng’ang’a, Muthoni Junghae, Robert F. Breiman, Allen L. Richards, and M. Kariuki Njenga
Table 2
Genetic sequence analysis results of rickettsial DNA amplified from 17-kDa, ompB, and pRF genes from 21 human specimens, Lwak Mission Hospital, Western Kenya, 2008–2010*
| DNA no. | 17-kDa gene sequence | ompB gene sequence† | pRF gene sequence | pRFδ gene sequence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | + | + | – | – |
| 2 | + | + | + | – |
| 3 | + | + | – | – |
| 4 | + | + | – | – |
| 5 | + | + | – | – |
| 6 | + | + | – | – |
| 7 | + | + | – | – |
| 8 | + | + | – | – |
| 9 | + | – | – | – |
| 10 | + | + | + | – |
| 11 | + | – | – | – |
| 12 | + | – | – | – |
| 13 | + | – | – | – |
| 14 | + | + | – | – |
| 15 | + | + | + | – |
| 16 | + | + | – | – |
| 17 | + | – | – | – |
| 18 | + | + | + | – |
| 19 | + | + | + | – |
| 20 | + | – | + | – |
| 21 | + | + | + | – |
*omp, outer membrane protein; pRf, R. felis plasmid; +, positive; –, negative.
†Rickettsia DNA from fleas, dogs, and cats had 93%–99% nt sequence homology with R. felis.
