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Volume 23, Number 4—April 2017
Dispatch

Typhus Group Rickettsiosis, Texas, USA, 2003–2013

Kristy O. MurrayComments to Author , Nicole Evert, Bonny Mayes, Eric Fonken, Timothy Erickson, Melissa N. Garcia, and Tom Sidwa
Author affiliations: Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA (K.O. Murray, T. Erickson, M.N. Garcia); Texas Department of State Health Services, Austin, Texas, USA (N. Evert, B. Mayes, E. Fonken, T. Sidwa)

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Table 1

Demographic characteristics and attack rates for typhus group rickettsiosis, Texas, 2003–2013

Characteristic Cases, no. (%), n = 1,762 Census population* Attack rate†
Sex
F 921 (52) 12,673,281 7.3
M
 841 (48)
 12,472,280
 6.7
Race/ethnicity
White, non-Hispanic 429 (24) 11,397,345 3.8
White, Hispanic 1,133 (64) 9,460,921 12.0
Black 23 (1) 2,886,825 0.8
Unknown or other
 177 (10)
 1,400,470
 12.6
Age group, y
<5 40 (2) 1,928,473 2.1
5–19 591 (34) 5,693,241 10.4
20–39 398 (23) 7,194,139 5.5
40–64 575 (33) 7,727,822 7.4
>65 158 (9) 2,601,886 6.1

*Based on 2010 Population Census for Texas.
†Per 100,000 population.

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