Delayed correlation between the incidence rate of indigenous murine typhus in humans and the seropositive rate of Rickettsia typhi infection in small mammals in Taiwan from 2007-2019.

• Main Authors: Pai-Shan Chiang (Author), Shin-Wei Su (Author), Su-Lin Yang (Author), Pei-Yun Shu (Author), Wang-Ping Lee (Author), Shu-Ying Li (Author), Hwa-Jen Teng (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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Murine typhus is a flea-borne zoonotic disease with acute febrile illness caused by Rickettsia typhi and is distributed widely throughout the world, particularly in port cities and coastal regions. We observed that murine typhus was an endemic disease (number of annual indigenous cases = 29.23±8.76)...