[Primary surveillance of spotted fever group antibodies on rats in the Kinmen area]

H L Chen; H Y Chen; C L Chung; T H Lin; G R Wang; C B Horng

[Primary surveillance of spotted fever group antibodies on rats in the Kinmen area]

Zhonghua Min Guo Wei Sheng Wu Ji Mian Yi Xue Za Zhi. 1997 May;30(2):115-21.

[Article in Chinese]

Authors

H L Chen¹, H Y Chen, C L Chung, T H Lin, G R Wang, C B Horng

Affiliation

¹ National Institute of Preventive Medicine, Department of Health, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

PMID: 10592817

Abstract

The positive rate of rickettsial antibodies of 107 rats in the Kinmen area by indirect immunofluorescent antibody (IFA) technique was 0% (0/107) in typhus fever, 38.3% (41/107) in scrub typhus and 66.4% (71/107) in spotted fever group; the positive rate (42.9%) of spotted fever group of 21 rats in Taiwan island also higher than scrub typhus (19.0). It suggests that spotted fever group patients may be present in our country but have not been discovered.

Publication types

English Abstract

MeSH terms

Animals
Antibodies, Bacterial / blood*
Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Indirect
Rats / microbiology*
Rickettsia / immunology*
Taiwan

Substances

Antibodies, Bacterial