Abstract

<i>Bartonella</i><i>quintana</i>Transmission from Mite to Family with High Socioeconomic Status

Highlights

  • We report on an outbreak of B. quintana infection among a young family of high socioeconomic status and their visiting relatives

  • Two weeks later, a papular rash and pruritic vesicular lesions were noted by the parents on the body and legs of their 2 children, a 1-year-old girl and a 3-year-old boy

  • Patient serum samples were negative for Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Borrelia bugdorferi; Coxiella burnetii, Rickettsia connorii, and R. prowazekii (IFA, total immunoglobulin). §Determined by IFA. ¶Detected by 16S rRNA and by htrA amplification

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Introduction

Differential detection of transmissible gastroenteritis virus and porcine epidemic diarrhea virus by duplex RT-PCR. Bartonella quintana Transmission from Mite to Family with High Socioeconomic Two weeks later (day 1 of symptom onset), a papular rash and pruritic vesicular lesions were noted by the parents on the body and legs of their 2 children, a 1-year-old girl and a 3-year-old boy.

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