{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Bowhay TR"],"funding":["Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation","University of Otago Doctoral Scholarship","Otago Medical School Collaborative Research Grant, University of Otago, New Zealand","Wellcome Trust","University of Otago Frances Cotter Scholarship and the University of Otago Postgraduate Publishing Bursary","New Zealand Health Research Council through an e-ASIA Joint Research Programme"],"pagination":["966-977"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12401629"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["30(9)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Objectives
To inform patient management and disease prevention, we sought to estimate the prevalence of, and identify risk factors for, scrub typhus, murine typhus, and spotted fever group rickettsioses (SFGR) among febrile patients presenting to hospital in Myanmar.Methods
We recruited patients ≥12 years old with fever ≥38°C among those seeking care at Yangon General Hospital from 5 October 2015 through 4 October 2016. Standardised clinical and risk factor assessments were conducted. Confirmed scrub typhus, murine typhus, and SFGR infections were defined as a positive polymerase chain reaction or ≥4-fold rise in immunofluorescence assay antibody titre to Orientia tsutsugamushi, Rickettsia typhi or Rickettsia honei or Rickettsia conorii, respectively. Probable infection was"],"journal":["Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH"],"pubmed_title":["Prevalence and risk factors for murine typhus, scrub typhus and spotted fever group rickettsioses among adolescent and adult patients presenting to Yangon General Hospital, Yangon, Myanmar."],"pmcid":["PMC12401629"],"funding_grant_id":["16/697","220211","OPP1151153"],"pubmed_authors":["Crump JA","Mayxay M","Murdoch DR","Mone HK","Htike WW","Oo WT","Ussher JE","Sharples KJ","Tanganuchitcharnchai A","Myat TO","Blacksell SD","Bowhay TR","Newton PN","Robinson MT"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Prevalence and risk factors for murine typhus, scrub typhus and spotted fever group rickettsioses among adolescent and adult patients presenting to Yangon General Hospital, Yangon, Myanmar.","description":"Objectives
To inform patient management and disease prevention, we sought to estimate the prevalence of, and identify risk factors for, scrub typhus, murine typhus, and spotted fever group rickettsioses (SFGR) among febrile patients presenting to hospital in Myanmar.Methods
We recruited patients ≥12 years old with fever ≥38°C among those seeking care at Yangon General Hospital from 5 October 2015 through 4 October 2016. Standardised clinical and risk factor assessments were conducted. Confirmed scrub typhus, murine typhus, and SFGR infections were defined as a positive polymerase chain reaction or ≥4-fold rise in immunofluorescence assay antibody titre to Orientia tsutsugamushi, Rickettsia typhi or Rickettsia honei or Rickettsia conorii, respectively. Probable infection was","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025 Sep","modification":"2026-05-29T10:29:35.469Z","creation":"2026-04-08T04:29:41.982Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC12401629","cross_references":{"pubmed":["40671672"],"doi":["10.1111/tmi.70009"]}}