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We now report the specific seroprevalence against\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">R. typhi</jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">R. felis</jats:italic>\n                    , and associated risk factors in 7 towns of this province. The combined seroprevalence against the 2 flea-borne rickettsioses is the highest yet reported in the literature: 71.7% (17.8% for\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">R. felis</jats:italic>\n                    , 25.2% for\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">R. typhi</jats:italic>\n                    , and 28.7% for both). We also report a prospective analysis of 26 patients with a febrile illness compatible with rickettsioses, including murine typhus; 9 of these patients had a rickettsiosis. This supports our sero-epidemiological results and highlights the diagnostic complexity of febrile syndromes in this region.\n                  </jats:p>","journal":"Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases","year":2013,"id":674503,"datarank":0.5570358100056463,"base_score":3.713572066704308,"endowment":3.713572066704308,"self_citation_contribution":0.5570358100056463,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.5570358100056463,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":40,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1762308,"name":"Viviana Montoya","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":488700,"name":"Alejandra Martínez","orcid":"0000-0002-8484-8126","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":312580,"name":"Marcela Mercado","orcid":"0000-0003-3721-3176","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1762309,"name":"Alberto De la Ossa","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1762310,"name":"Carolina Vélez","orcid":null,"position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1762311,"name":"Gloria Estrada","orcid":null,"position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1762312,"name":"Jorge E. 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Both are emerging acute febrile zoonotic diseases for which fleas are vectors; they also have similar clinical characteristics and global distribution. In 2005, we identified the circulation of murine typhus in 6 towns within the mountainous coffee-growing area north of Caldas, Colombia. We now report the specific seroprevalence against\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">R. typhi</jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">R. felis</jats:italic>\n                    , and associated risk factors in 7 towns of this province. The combined seroprevalence against the 2 flea-borne rickettsioses is the highest yet reported in the literature: 71.7% (17.8% for\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">R. felis</jats:italic>\n                    , 25.2% for\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">R. typhi</jats:italic>\n                    , and 28.7% for both). We also report a prospective analysis of 26 patients with a febrile illness compatible with rickettsioses, including murine typhus; 9 of these patients had a rickettsiosis. 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