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| Title |
Rickettsial infection among military personnel deployed in Northern Sri Lanka
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| Published in |
BMC Infectious Diseases, December 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12879-014-0688-8 |
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| Authors |
Ranjan Premaratna, Nimalka Ariyaratna, Champaka Attanayake, Wijesinghe Bandara, Nilmini Chandrasena, H Janaka de Silva |
| Abstract |
BackgroundMilitary personnel deployed in field actvities report on frequent tick bites. Therefore they may run the risk of exposure to rickettsial organisms.MethodsIn order to assess the risk of exposure to rickettsial organisms, two groups of military personnel who were deployed in field activities of Nothern Sri Lanka were investigated. The first group was studied in order to assess the sero-prevalence of rickettsioses and consisted of soldiers who were admitted following injuries during field activities. The second group was studied to identify the incidence of acute rickettsioses during their acute febrile presentations. They were tested with IFA-IgG against spotted fever group rickettsioses (SFG), scrub typhus (ST) and murine typhus.ResultsIn the first group, 48/57 (84%) military personnel had serological evidence of exposure to rickettsioses (in all, IFA-IgG titer¿¿¿1:128): 33/50 (66%) to SFG rickettsioses, 1/50 (2%) to ST and 14/50 (28%) had mixed titers for both (in all, titers were higher for SFG). While all of them were in military uniform most of the time and frequently slept on scrub land, 35/57 (61.4%) had never used insect repellents and none were on doxycycline prophylaxis. 48/57 (84%) had experienced tick bites during field activity.In the second group, there were 49 who presented with acute febrile illness with a mean duration of 8.5 days (SD 3.2). 33/49 (67.3%) were serologically positive for acute rickettsioses (IgG ¿1:256); 26 (79%) due to ST and 7 (21%) due to SFG rickettsioses,ConclusionsExposure to rickettsial disease was common among soldiers who were deployed in Northern Sri Lanka. Scrub typhus was the predominent species accounting for acute febrile illness. Further studies are needed to understand the reasons for very high sero-prevalence for SFG rickettsioses with no anticedent febrile illness. Use of preventive measures was not satisfactory. The high sero-prevelence of SFG rickettsioses is likely to interfere with serological diagnosis of acute SFG rickettsioses in this population. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 3 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Sri Lanka | 2 | 5% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 37 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 5 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 4 | 10% |
| Student > Master | 4 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 7% |
| Other | 10 | 24% |
| Unknown | 11 | 27% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 10 | 24% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 15% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 7% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 2 | 5% |
| Computer Science | 2 | 5% |
| Other | 6 | 15% |
| Unknown | 12 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
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