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Serological evidence of rickettsial infections in Delhi

Mittal, Veena ; Gupta, Naveen ; Bhattacharya, Dipesh ; Kumar, Kaushal ; Ichhpujani, R L ; Singh, Sharda ; Chhabra, Mala ; Rana, U V S

Indian journal of medical research (New Delhi, India : 1994), 2012-04, Vol.135 (4), p.538-541 [Periódico revisado por pares]

India: Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd

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Serological evidence of rickettsial infections in Delhi
Autor: Mittal, Veena ; Gupta, Naveen ; Bhattacharya, Dipesh ; Kumar, Kaushal ; Ichhpujani, R L ; Singh, Sharda ; Chhabra, Mala ; Rana, U V S
Assuntos: Adolescent ; Adult ; Animals ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Development and progression ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Disease Vectors ; Female ; Fever of Unknown Origin - blood ; Humans ; India ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Original ; Physiological aspects ; Prevalence studies (Epidemiology) ; Rickettsia Infections - blood ; Rickettsia Infections - diagnosis ; Rickettsial diseases ; Rodentia - microbiology ; Scrub Typhus - blood ; Scrub Typhus - diagnosis ; Serology ; Serotyping
É parte de: Indian journal of medical research (New Delhi, India : 1994), 2012-04, Vol.135 (4), p.538-541
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Descrição: Rickettsial infections remain under-diagnosed due to lack of diagnostic facilities in developing world. Here we present our experience at National Centre for Disease Control, Delhi, about a serosurvey done in Delhi for rickettsial disease with easy to perform low cost, low expertise Weil Felix test. On the basis of cut-off titre obtained in healthy population, Weil Felix test results were interpreted along with clinical data. Entomological investigation was also carried out in select areas of Delhi. Rodents were trapped from houses and gardens and vector mites were collected. When serum samples were collected during initial 5 yr period from patients with fever of unknown origin, seropositivity was 8.2 per cent whereas when rickettsial infection was kept as one of the differential diagnosis by clinicians seropositivity increased to 33.3 per cent. Rickettsial infections detected were scrub typhus (48.2%) followed by spotted fever group (27.5%) and typhus group (6.8%) during 2005-2009. In preliminary entomological survey vector mite Leptotombidium deliense was found on rodents. Our findings showed that results of Weil Felix test should not be disregarded, rather clinically compatible cases should be treated to save lives.
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Serological evidence of rickettsial infections in Delhi

Mittal, Veena ; Gupta, Naveen ; Bhattacharya, Dipesh ; Kumar, Kaushal ; Ichhpujani, R L ; Singh, Sharda ; Chhabra, Mala ; Rana, U V S

India: Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd

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