Rickettsia felis Infection, Tunisia

Abstract

We report, for the first time, serologic evidence of Rickettsia felis and R. aeschlimannii infections acquired in Tunisia from 1998 to 2003. We found that most patients with antibodies against both R. conorii and R. typhi had serologic evidence of R. felis infection.

Keywords

• Rickettsia felis
• serology
• Tunisia
• dispatch