Prevalence and clinical presentation of Rickettsia, Coxiella, Leptospira, Bartonella and chikungunya virus infections among hospital-based febrile patients from December 2008 to November 2009 in Bangladesh

Table 6 Pattern of fever among the febrile patients*

	Typhus group Rickettsia (N = 10)	Spotted fever group Rickettsia (N = 132)	Scrub typhus group Rickettsia (N = 170)	C. burnetii (N = 10)	Leptospira (N = 2)	Chikungunya (N = 10)	Bartonella (N = 1)
Fever type:†
Remittent	2 (20)	23 (17)	25 (15)	0	0	0	0
Intermittent	8 (80)	72 (55)	93 (55)	9 (90)	1 (50)	7 (70)	0
Continuous	0	33 (25)	44 (26)	1 (10)	1 (50)	3 (30)	1 (100)
Fever subsided with:
Paracetamol	3 (30)	81 (61)	113 (66)	4 (40)	0	8 (80)	0
Analgesics	0	1 (1)	2 (1)	0	0	1 (10)	0
Both	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
No medication	7 (70)	50 (38)	55 (32)	6 (60)	2 (100)	1 (10)	1 (100)
Fever associated with:
Chills	0	12 (9)	22 (13)	1 (10)	1 (50)	2 (20)	0
Sweating	0	17 (13)	22 (13)	2 (20)	0	6 (60)	0
Both	0	2 (2)	5 (3)	0	0	0	0

* Values are n (%) unless otherwise indicated
† Fever type: Intermittent fever presents with elevated temperature but falls to normal (37 .2 °C or below) each day and in case of remittent fever, the temperature falls each day but not comes to normal. However, in continuous fever, there is little change (0 .3 °C or less) in the elevated temperature during a 24-h period
Out of 720 participants, 462 patients were from inpatients so the classifications were mostly based on objective assessment while hospitalized; however 258 outpatients reported on their febrile history

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