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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 106, No. 2: 172-175
Copyright © 1977 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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RICKETTSIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI INFECTION AND SCRUB TYPHUS INCIDENCE AMONG CHINESE MILITARY PERSONNEL IN THE PESCADORES ISLANDS

JAMES G. OLSON and A. LOUIS BOURGEOIS1

1 US Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2. Reprint requests to Publications Office, NAMRU-2 Box 14, APO San Francisco 96263, or 7-1 Kung Yuan Road, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Olson, J. G., and A. L. Bourgeois (NAMRU-2, Box 14, APO San Francisco 96263). Rickettsia tsutsugamushi infection and scrub typhus incidence among Chinese military personnel in the Pescadores Islands. Am J Epidemiol 106:172–175, 1977.

Personnel assigned to infantry units of the army of the Republic of China (Talwan) stationed in the Pescadores islands experienced the highest incidence rate of scrub typhus (4%) and the highest rate of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi infection (12%) of the units studied during 1976. The ratio of scrub typhus to infection with R. tsutsugamushi was 30%. Non-Immune personnel, when infected, were more likely to develop scrub typhus than were those who had previously been infected. There was a correlation between clinical illness and high antibody titers developed in response to the infection.

infection; Rickettsia tsutsugamushi; scrub typhus


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