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We randomly selected 125 of 627 (20%) of these UFI patients, consisting of 96 of 409 (23%) cases with sterile blood cultures and 29 of 218 (13%) cases with enteric fever, for additional diagnostic investigations. We found serological evidence of acute murine typhus in 21 of 125 (17%) patients, with 12 of 21 (57%) patients polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-positive for <jats:italic>Rickettsia typhi<\/jats:italic>. Three UFI cases were quantitative PCR-positive for <jats:italic>Rickettsia<\/jats:italic> spp., two UFI cases were seropositive for Hantavirus, and one UFI case was seropositive for Q fever. Fever clearance time (FCT) for rickettsial infection was 44.5 hours (interquartile range = 26\u201366 hours), and there was no difference in FCT between ofloxacin or gatifloxacin. 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