High Seroprevalence Against Typhus Group and Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae in Rural Indigenous Populations of Peninsular Malaysia

• Main Authors: Tappe, Dennis, Gross, Yvonne, Ngui, Romano, Rauch, Jessica, Tay, Sun Tee, Lim, Yvonne Ai Lian
• Format: Article
• Published: Mary Ann Liebert 2019
• Subjects: R Medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/23279/; https://doi.org/10.1089/vbz.2018.2391

Rickettsioses of the typhus group (TG) and spotted fever group (SFG) are emerging bacterial infections worldwide, especially in the tropics. Only a few studies on these pathogens and their respective clinical diseases have been conducted in Malaysia. Here, we performed a seroprevalence study among 5...