Acute Q fever and scrub typhus, southern Taiwan.

ABSTRACT: Acute Q fever and scrub typhus are zoonoses endemic to southern Taiwan. Among the 137 patients with acute Q fever (89, 65.0%) or scrub typhus (43, 31.4%), we identified 5 patients (3.6%) who were co-infected with Coxiella burnetii and Orientia tsutsugamushi.

SUBMITTER: Lai CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2866387 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature