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Volume 21, Number 4—April 2015
Dispatch

High Seroprevalence of Antibodies against Spotted Fever and Scrub Typhus Bacteria in Patients with Febrile Illness, Kenya

Jacqueline W. Thiga, Beth K. Mutai, Wurapa K. Eyako, Zipporah Ng’ang’a, Ju Jiang, Allen L. Richards, and John N. WaitumbiComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Walter Reed Project/Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya (J.W. Thiga, B.K. Mutai, W.K. Eyako, J.N. Waitumbi); Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Itromid, Nairobi, Kenya (J.W. Thiga, Z. Ng’ang’a); Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA (J. Jiang, A.L. Richards)

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Figure 1

Distribution of titers to spotted fever (SFG) and scrub typhus (STG) groups in patients recruited in various surveillance hospitals. A) For SFG, Garissa District Hospital (GSA), in semiarid northeastern Kenya, had more patients with higher titers compared with Alupe District Hospital (ALH), on the Kenya-Uganda border; Marigat District Hospital (MGT), on the floor of the Rift Valley; Malindi District Hospital (MDH), on the Indian Ocean coast; Kisii District Hospital (KSI), in the Kisii highlands;

Figure 1. Distribution of titers to spotted fever (SFG) and scrub typhus (STG) groups in patients recruited in various surveillance hospitals. A) For SFG, Garissa District Hospital (GSA), in semiarid northeastern Kenya, had more patients with higher titers compared with Alupe District Hospital (ALH), on the Kenya-Uganda border; Marigat District Hospital (MGT), on the floor of the Rift Valley; Malindi District Hospital (MDH), on the Indian Ocean coast; Kisii District Hospital (KSI), in the Kisii highlands; and Kisumu District Hospital and Obama Children Hospital (KSM), on the Lake Victoria basin. B) For STG, MGT had the most patients with titers of 1:400 and 1:1,600 compared with ALH, MDH, KSI, and KSM.

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