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Volume 13, Issue 3 , Pages 387-393 , May 2009

The difference in clinical characteristics between acute Q fever and scrub typhus in southern Taiwan

Chung-Hsu Lai
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, E-Da Hospital/I-Shou University, 1 E-Da Road, Jiau-Shu Tsuen, Yan-Chau Shiang, Kaohsiung County, 824 Taiwan, Republic of China
- Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan, Republic of China
Chun-Kai Huang
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, E-Da Hospital/I-Shou University, 1 E-Da Road, Jiau-Shu Tsuen, Yan-Chau Shiang, Kaohsiung County, 824 Taiwan, Republic of China
Hui-Ching Weng
- Department of Health Management, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan, Republic of China
Hsing-Chun Chung
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, E-Da Hospital/I-Shou University, 1 E-Da Road, Jiau-Shu Tsuen, Yan-Chau Shiang, Kaohsiung County, 824 Taiwan, Republic of China
Shiou-Haur Liang
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, E-Da Hospital/I-Shou University, 1 E-Da Road, Jiau-Shu Tsuen, Yan-Chau Shiang, Kaohsiung County, 824 Taiwan, Republic of China
Jiun-Nong Lin
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, E-Da Hospital/I-Shou University, 1 E-Da Road, Jiau-Shu Tsuen, Yan-Chau Shiang, Kaohsiung County, 824 Taiwan, Republic of China
- Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan, Republic of China
Chih-Wen Lin
- Section of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, E-Da Hospital/I-Shou University, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan, Republic of China
Chuan-Yuan Hsu
- Section of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, E-Da Hospital/I-Shou University, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan, Republic of China
Hsi-Hsun Lin
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, E-Da Hospital/I-Shou University, 1 E-Da Road, Jiau-Shu Tsuen, Yan-Chau Shiang, Kaohsiung County, 824 Taiwan, Republic of China
- Corresponding author. Tel.: +886 7 615 0011 ext. 5550; fax: +886 7 615 0960.

Received 14 April 2008 ,Revised 17 July 2008 ,Accepted 29 July 2008.

Distribution of acute Q fever and scrub typhus cases in southern Taiwan. Cases of acute Q fever (left) are mainly distributed in the plains regions (white-colored areas) with only five of 80 cases (6.

Distribution of acute Q fever and scrub typhus cases in southern Taiwan. Cases of acute Q fever (left) are mainly distributed in the plains regions (white-colored areas) with only five of 80 cases (6.3%) from the mountainous regions (gray-colored areas). In contrast, 16 of 40 cases (40%) of scrub typhus (right) are distributed in the mountainous regions. By univariate analysis, residence in a mountainous region was significantly different between Q fever and scrub typhus (p<0.001).
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