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Acute Q Fever and Scrub Typhus, Southern Taiwan |
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| Authors: | Chung-Hsu Lai Yen-Hsu Chen Jiun-Nong Lin Lin-Li Chang Wei-Fang Chen Hsi-Hsun Lin |
| Affiliation: | E-Da Hospital and I-Shou University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan (C.-H. Lai, J-.N. Lin, W.-F. Chen, H.-H. Lin);Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City (C.-H. Lai, Y-H. Chen, J.-N. Lin, L.-L. Chang);National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan (H.-H. Lin) |
| Abstract: | Acute Q fever and scrub typhus are zoonoses endemic to southern Taiwan. Among the 137 patients with acute Q fever (89, 65.0%) or scrub typhus (43, 31.4%), we identified 5 patients (3.6%) who were co-infected with Coxiella burnetii and Orientia tsutsugamushi. |
| Keywords: | Q fever scrub typhus Coxiella burnetii Orientia tsutsugamushi co-infection Taiwan vector-borne infections bacteria dispatch |