Emerging infectious diseases · 2003 · 58 citations · 10 references
Veterinary MedicineEntomologyInfectious DiseasesInfectious Disease EpidemiologyOutbreak InvestigationZoonotic Disease EpidemiologyAnimal Infectious DiseasesRickettsial DiseasesZoonotic Outbreak InvestigationRickettsia Prowazekii InfectionRickettsia Typhi InfectionTick-borne Rickettsioses
In March 2002, typhus fever was diagnosed in two patients residing in West Virginia and Georgia. Both patients were hospitalized with severe febrile illnesses, and both had been recently exposed to or had physical contact with flying squirrels or flying squirrel nests. Laboratory results indicated Rickettsia prowazekii infection.
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Epidemic typhus rickettsiae isolated from flying squirrels
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