Ability of variables to predict adult patients’ subsequent requirement for Intensive Care Unit admission.

Ability of variables to predict adult patients’ subsequent requirement for Intensive Care Unit admission.</p

The epidemiology and clinical features of rickettsial diseases in North Queensland, Australia: Implications for patient identification and management - Fig 2

A–The total number of patients with rickettsial infection hospitalized at Cairns Hospital during the study period. B–The annual incidence of rickettsial infections in the Far North Queensland population. Determined using all requests for rickettsial serology from the public health system (positive cases defined using a titre of ≥ 256).</p

Pathogens causing CNS infection in patients who died.

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Death and disability outcomes stratified by clinical phenotypes, aetiology and demographic characteristics.

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The number of cases in urban and remote areas within FNQ by clinical phenotype and pathogen.

The number of cases in urban and remote areas within FNQ by clinical phenotype and pathogen.</p

Pathogens identified in immunocompromised patients.

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Patients with a complicated clinical course.

Patients with a complicated clinical course.</p

Ability of the qSOFA and NEWS2 scores on admission to predict subsequent death or specific organ dysfunction in adults.

Ability of the qSOFA and NEWS2 scores on admission to predict subsequent death or specific organ dysfunction in adults.</p

The number of cases in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians by pathogen.

The number of cases in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians by pathogen.</p

Spatial distribution of cases of rickettsial infections hospitalised at Cairns Hospital during the study period.

Note the location of each case is based on the residential address of the patient, not necessarily the location of acquisition, which was frequently impossible to determine in this retrospective study. The map was created using constructed using mapping software (MapInfo version 15.02, Connecticut, USA) using data provided by the State of Queensland (QSpatial). Queensland Place Names—State of Queensland (Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy) 2019, available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. ‘Coastline and state border–Queensland - State of Queensland (Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy) 2019, available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Note Erub Island is also known as Darnley Island.</p