Antibody prevalence and factors associated with exposure to Orientia tsutsugamushi in different aboriginal subgroups in West Malaysia

• Main Authors: Sun, Tee Tay, Hafizatul Anis, Mohamed Zan, Yvonne Ai, Lian Lim, Romano, Ngui
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLOS) 2013
• Subjects: QR Microbiology; RZ Other systems of medicine
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/42334/1/Antibody.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/42334/; https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0002341#:~:text=The%20antibody%20prevalence%20to%20O,occupations%20were%20associated%20to%20fishing.
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Background: Limited data is available on the current status of scrub typhus infection in the aboriginal population in Malaysia. This study was aimed to provide recent data on the degree of exposure of 280 individuals from seven aboriginal subgroups to Orientia tsutsugamushi (causative agent of scr...