1. Short report: surveillance of rickettsial infections in Indonesian military personnel during peace keeping operations in Cambodia
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Soeprapto W, Eko Rahardjo, Andrew L. Corwin, Annie Sie, Larasati Rp, James G. Olson, Gregory A. Dasch, Widodo Ps, Allen L. Richards, and Daryl J. Kelly
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Orientia tsutsugamushi ,Scrub typhus ,Murine typhus ,Virology ,Rickettsia typhi ,parasitic diseases ,Prevalence ,Medicine ,biology ,business.industry ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,Rickettsia Infections ,bacterial infections and mycoses ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,Antibodies, Bacterial ,Spotted fever ,Infectious Diseases ,Rickettsiosis ,Military Personnel ,Indonesia ,bacteria ,Parasitology ,business ,Rickettsia conorii ,Cambodia - Abstract
Indonesian peacekeepers in Cambodia provided a unique study population to estimate the threat of rickettsial exposure to Rickettsia typhi (murine typhus), Orientia tsutsugamushi, (scrub typhus), and R. conorii (spotted fever) for the region. Prescreening prevalence measure showed a large proportion (36%) of soldiers with antibodies to R. typhi. Predeployment prevalence for antibodies to O. tsutsugamushi was 8%, with no evidence of background R. conorii infections. Actual seroconversions of R. typhi (3) and O. tsutsugamushi (1), attributed to exposure(s) in Cambodia, translated into annualized incidence rates of 24 and 8 per 1,000 per year, respectively. Surveillance of rickettsial infections and/or disease is particularly warranted in Cambodia with recent recognition of drug-resistant scrub typhus in neighboring Thailand.
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- 1997