Table 2

Acute Tick-borne Rickettsiosis Caused by Rickettsia heilongjiangensis in the Russian Far East

Oleg Y. Mediannikov*†‡

, Yuri Sidelnikov†, Leonid Ivanov§, Eugenia Mokretsova†, Pierre-Edouard Fournier‡, Irina Tarasevich*, and Didier Raoult‡

Author affiliations: *Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Moscow, Russia; †Far Eastern State Medical University, Khabarovsk, Russia; ‡Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France; §Khabarovsk Plague Control Station of Ministry of Health of Russian Federation, Khabarovsk, Russia

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Serologic data of 11 patients with Rickettsia infection^a,b

Patient no.	Disease onset date	Antimicrobial treatment^c	PCR		Sera	Collection date	IgM tests
Patient no.	Disease onset date	Antimicrobial treatment^c	gltA gene	ompA and ompB genes	Sera	Collection date	R. heilongjiangensis	R. hulinensis	R. sibirica	R. conorii
1	6/18	6/23	+	NI	1	6/24	0	0	0	0
1	6/18	6/23	+	NI	2	6/28	1/32	1/32	1/32	1/32
2	6/20	6/23	+	+	1	6/24	0	0	0	0
2	6/20	6/23	+	+	2	7/9	0	0	0	0
3	6/21	6/24	+	NI	1	6/5	0	0	0	0
3	6/21	6/24	+	NI	2	7/12	0	0	0	0
4	6/22	6/26	+	NI	1	6/26	1/32	1/16	1/16	1/32
4	6/22	6/26	+	NI	2	7/1	1/64	1/64	1/64	1/64
5	6/22	6/28	+	NI	1	6/28	0	0	0	0
5	6/22	6/28	+	NI	2	7/16	1/128	1/32	1/32	1/128
6	6/29	7/2	+	+	1	7/3	0	0	0	0
6	6/29	7/2	+	+	2	7/8	1/64	1/64	1/64	1/64
7	6/30	7/4	+	NI	1	7/5	0	0	0	0
7	6/30	7/4	+	NI	2	7/16	1/1,024	1/1,024	1/256	1/1,024
8	7/1	7/8	+	NI	1	7/8	0	0	0	0
8	7/1	7/8	+	NI	2	7/26	1/512	1/126	1/126	1/512
9	7/6	7/12	+	NI	1	7/15	1/64	1/64	1/64	1/64
9	7/6	7/12	+	NI	2	7/31	1/128	1/128	1/128	1/128
10	7/23	7/28	+	+	1	7/29	0	0	0	0
10	7/23	7/28	+	+	2	8/13	1/32	1/32	1/16	1/16
11	7/25	8/1	+	NI	1	8/2	1/256	1/256	1/64	1/64
11	7/25	8/1	+	NI	2	8/15	1/256	1/256	1/64	1/64

^aPCR, polymerase chain reaction; Ig, immunoglobulin; NI, not investigated.
^bIgM tests used.
^cDate of beginning of antimicrobial drug therapy.

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