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Volume 24, Number 4—April 2018
CME ACTIVITY - Research

Rickettsial Illnesses as Important Causes of Febrile Illness in Chittagong, Bangladesh

Hugh W. Kingston, Mosharraf Hossain, Stije Leopold, Tippawan Anantatat, Ampai Tanganuchitcharnchai, Ipsita Sinha, Katherine Plewes, Richard J. Maude, M.A. Hassan Chowdhury, Sujat Paul, Rabiul Alam Mohammed Erfan Uddin, Mohammed Abu Naser Siddiqui, Abu Shahed Zahed, Abdullah Abu Sayeed, Mohammed Habibur Rahman, Anupam Barua, Mohammed Jasim Uddin, Mohammed Abdus Sattar, Arjen M. Dondorp, Stuart D. Blacksell, Nicholas P.J. Day, Aniruddha Ghose, Amir Hossain, and Daniel H. ParisComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, Northern Territory, Australia (H.W. Kingston); Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand (H.W. Kingston, S. Leopold, T. Anantatat, A. Tanganuchitcharnchai, I. Sinha, K. Plewes, R.J. Maude, A.M. Dondorp, S.D. Blacksell, N.P.J. Day, D.H. Paris); Chittagong Medical College Hospital, Chittagong, Bangladesh (M. Hossain, M.A.H. Chowdhury, S. Paul, R.A.M.E. Uddin, M.A.N. Siddiqui, A.S. Zahed, A.A. Sayeed, M.H. Rahman, A. Barua, M.J. Uddin, M.A. Sattar, A. Ghose, A. Hossain); Oxford University, Oxfordshire, UK (I. Sinha, R.J. Maude, A.M. Dondorp, S.D. Blacksell, N.P.J. Day, D.H. Paris); Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (R.J. Maude); Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland (D.H. Paris); University of Basel, Basel (D.H. Paris)

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Figure 2

Seasonality of scrub typhus and murine typhus–related hospital admissions, Chittagong Medical College Hospital, Chittagong, Bangladesh, August 2014–September 2015. We observed a biphasic pattern in scrub typhus, with an increase of cases in the cooler months and a smaller peak before the rainy season.

Figure 2. Seasonality of scrub typhus and murine typhus–related hospital admissions, Chittagong Medical College Hospital, Chittagong, Bangladesh, August 2014–September 2015. We observed a biphasic pattern in scrub typhus, with an increase of cases in the cooler months and a smaller peak before the rainy season.

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