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

• Published in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases Vol. 16; no. 4; p. e0010394
• Main Authors: Chiang, Pai-Shan, Su, Shin-Wei, Yang, Su-Lin, Shu, Pei-Yun, Lee, Wang-Ping, Li, Shu-Ying, Teng, Hwa-Jen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 01.04.2022; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Airports; Analysis; Animals; Antibiotics; Antibodies; Antigens; Biology and Life Sciences; Care and treatment; Coastal zone; Correlation; Diagnosis; Disease control; Fever; Harbors; Humans; Illnesses; Incidence; Infections; Infectious diseases; Mammals; Medical laboratories; Medicine and Health Sciences; Mice; Murine typhus; Pathogens; People and Places; Physicians; Rickettsia typhi; Rickettsiales infections; Risk factors; Serodiagnosis; Shrews; Siphonaptera - microbiology; Small mammals; Surveillance; Taiwan - epidemiology; Tropical diseases; Typhus; Typhus, Endemic flea-borne; Typhus, Endemic Flea-Borne - epidemiology; Typhus, Endemic Flea-Borne - microbiology; Vectors (Biology); Zoonoses; Taiwan; United States > US

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)...