Volume 9, Number 4—April 2003
Dispatch
Scrub Typhus in the Torres Strait Islands of North Queensland, Australia
Antony G. Faa*, William J.H. McBride†
, Gaynor Garstone‡, Robert E. Thompson*, and Peter Holt*
, Gaynor Garstone‡, Robert E. Thompson*, and Peter Holt*
Table
Demographic, clinical and serologic data for patients with scrub typhus, Torres Strait islands, Queensland, Australia
| Patient no. | Age (y)/sex | Date | Island | Eschar | Orientia tsutsugamushi antibody titera (d after onset) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0–7 | 8–14 | 15–21 | 22–28 | >29 | |||||
| 1 |
35/male |
Mar 2000 |
Darnley |
No |
8,192 |
8,192 |
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| 2 |
19/male |
May 2000 |
Murray |
Yes |
<64 |
4,096 |
4,096 |
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| 3 |
29/maleb |
Aug 2000 |
— |
No |
1,024 |
1,024 |
1,024 |
||
| 4 |
28/female |
Jan 2001 |
Darnley |
Yes |
NR |
512 |
|||
| 5 |
9/male |
Jan 2001 |
Darnley |
No |
256 |
256 |
|||
| 6 |
14/female |
Jan 2001 |
Darnley |
No |
512 |
512 |
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| 7 |
36/male |
Jan 2001 |
Darnley |
Yes |
NR |
512 |
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| 8 |
19/male |
Jan 2001 |
Darnley |
No |
64c |
256 |
|||
| 9 |
5/male |
Feb 2001 |
Darnley |
Yes |
>1,024 |
>1,024 |
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| 10 | 30/maleb | Apr 2001 | — | Yes | NRc | 128 | |||
aSerologic tests were performed by using an immunofluorescent antibody method; NR, nonreactive.
bPatient visited several islands in 3 weeks before becoming ill.
cPolymerase chain reaction for scrub typhus positive (by using primers for 56-kDa antigen gene).
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