Volume 12, Number 10—October 2006
Dispatch
Scrub Typhus in Himalayas
Table 1
MIF assay results from 21 patients with suspected scrub typhus, Himalayas, 2004*
Patient no. | MIF titers (IgG/IgM) |
Outcome | |
---|---|---|---|
Orientia Kato/Gilliam | Orientia Kawasaki | ||
1 | 128/0 | 512/0 | Died† |
2 | 128/0 | 256/0 | Improved† |
3 | 1,024/0 | 1,024/0 | Improved |
4 | 128/64 | 256/64 | Improved |
5 | 2,048/0 | 2,048/0 | Improved |
6 | 2,048/1024 | 2,048/1,024 | Improved |
7 | 1,024/128 | 512/128 | Improved |
8 | 2,048/64 | 512/0 | Improved |
9 | 512/0 | 512/0 | Died† |
10 | 2,048/0 | 2,048/0 | Improved |
11 | 1,024/256 | 1,024/256 | Improved |
12 | 256/128 | 512/256 | Improved |
13 | 2,048/0 | 2,048/0 | Improved |
14 | 0/128 | 0/128 | Improved |
15 | 512/256 | 256/256 | Died |
16 | 64/128 | 128/128 | Improved |
17 | 512/0 | 512/0 | Improved |
18 | 2,048/0 | 2,048/0 | Improved |
19 | 512/64 | 0/64 | Improved |
20 | 64/64 | 0/64 | Improved |
21 | 128/256 | 0/256 | Improved |
*MIF, microimmunofluorescence; Ig, immunoglobulin. IgM was considered positive at a titer of 64; IgG was considered positive at a titer of 128.
†Positive PCR result.