Different Clinical Expression of Murine Typhus and Scrub Typhus

摘要

The clinical epidemiology of scrub and murine typhus in Laos will be reviewed. Both diseases are common causes of uncomplicated fevers but also present with more severe disease - jaundice, dyspnoea and impaired consciousness. Patients with murine typhus had a lower frequency of peripheral lymphadenopathy than those with scrub typhus.Data on the differential distribution of IgG antibodies against these diseases, amongst Lao people, will also be presented.