Pérez-Arellano Jose-Luis, Fenollar Florence, Angel-Moreno Alfonso, Bolaños Margarita, Hernández Michele, Santana Evora, Hemmersbach-Miller Marion, Martín Antonio M, Raoult Didier
Hospital Universitario Insular de Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2005 Dec;11(12):1961-4. doi: 10.3201/eid1112.050711.
We report the first cases of human infection by Rickettsia felis in the Canary Islands. Antibodies against R. felis were found in 5 adsorbed serum samples from 44 patients with clinically suspected rickettsiosis by Western blot serology. Fleas from 1 patient's dog were positive for R. felis by polymerase chain reaction.
我们报告了加那利群岛首例人感染猫立克次体病例。通过蛋白质印迹血清学检测,在44例临床疑似立克次体病患者的5份吸附血清样本中发现了抗猫立克次体抗体。通过聚合酶链反应检测发现,1例患者家中犬只身上的跳蚤呈猫立克次体阳性。