TABLE 3.
Presence of antibody to E. muris in wild mice and humans in Tokyo
| Animal and area | No. of samples | No. of positive sera | % of positive seraa | No. of specimens with following antibody titer (no. of wild mice from which ehrlichia were isolated):
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| <10 | 10 | 20 | 40 | 80 | 160 | 320 | 640 | 1,280 | 2,560 | ||||
| Wild mice from: | |||||||||||||
| Akikawa City | 16 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |||||||||
| Hinohara Village | 24 | 15 | 63 | 9 | 1 | 1 (1) | 1 | 6 (3) | 3 (3) | 3 (3) | |||
| Hinode Town | 122 | 0 | 0 | 122 | |||||||||
| Hachiouji City | 78 | 4 | 5 | 74 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Oume City | 31 | 0 | 0 | 31 | |||||||||
| R. norvegicus from: Shikine Island | 40 | 0 | 0 | 40 | |||||||||
| Humans from: | |||||||||||||
| Itsukaichi Town | 1,487 | 16 | 1 | 1,471 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Oume City | 316 | 4 | 1 | 312 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
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A titer of >1:10 is considered positive.