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Volume 24, Number 7—July 2018
Synopsis

Typhus Group Rickettsiosis, Germany, 2010–20171

Jessica Rauch, Philip Eisermann, Bernd Noack, Ute Mehlhoop, Birgit Muntau, Johannes Schäfer, and Dennis TappeComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany (J. Rauch, P. Eisermann, B. Noack, U. Mehlhoop, B. Muntau, D. Tappe); Tropenklinik Paul-Lechler-Krankenhaus, Tübingen, Germany (J. Schäfer)

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Figure 1

Countries and US states in which 27 of 28 patients acquired typhus group rickettsiosis diagnosed in Germany, 2010–2017. For 1 of the 28 patients, no information was available. Most infections were acquired in Southeast Asia, although 3 autochthonous cases were found in Germany. Each dot symbolizes 1 patient.

Figure 1. Countries and US states in which 27 of 28 patients acquired typhus group rickettsiosis diagnosed in Germany, 2010–2017. For 1 of the 28 patients, no information was available. Most infections were acquired in Southeast Asia, although 3 autochthonous cases were found in Germany. Each dot symbolizes 1 patient.

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1Part of this study was orally presented at the annual meeting of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology, February 19–21, 2018, Bochum, Germany.

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