Table 1.
Seroprevalence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in patients suspected of having scrub typhus from Kinmen County, 2011–2012.
Table 2.
Results of the serological and molecular analyses of the 11 patients with human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA) and scrub typhus in Kinmen County, 2011–2012.
Fig 1.
Distribution of the patients with human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA) in the study.
The geographic distribution of the patients was mapped manually using the Microsoft Paint and a background map available on USGS LandsatLook (https://landsatlook.usgs.gov/) according to their residential addresses.
Table 3.
Clinical symptoms of the 9 patients with human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA) in Kinmen County, 2011–2012.
Fig 2.
Phylogenetic analysis of Anaplasma phagocytophilum DNA sequences detected in human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA) patients in Kinmen, Taiwan, 2011–2012.
(A) The 16S rDNA. Sequences derived from patients with HGA in Kinmen County in Taiwan (bold) were compared with A. phagocytophilum strains obtained in other countries. The evolutionary relationships was inferred by Maximum Likelihood method with 305 nucleotides. The percentage of trees was shown next to the branches. (B) p44/msp2 multigene family. Amplicons of p44/msp2 from two HGA patients in Kinmen were compared with other human isolates in the database. The tree was constructed using the Maximum Likelihood method. A total of 279 positions was involved in the final dataset, and the percentage higher than 75 was shown next to the branches. The GenBank accession numbers were indicated.