Table 3. Results for the 26 patients with suspected rickettsiosis who had an acute and a convalescent-phase serum sample.
Positive Serology | Rickettsia-positive PCR | Culture positive | Total positive | ||
Acute sample | Convalescent-phase sample | ||||
Patients with skin biopsies | 2 (7%) | 17 (65%) | 14 (53%) | 5 (19%) | 17 (65%) |