RICKETTSIAL ANTIBODY PROFILE

Some diseases are confined to tropical areas. Many of the illnesses are not necessarily due to geographical factors like temperature, humidity and disease carrying insects - they are due to poverty and squalor. A large number of the diseases are due to low standards of public health, unhygienic food handling and a lack of sanitary facilities.

  • Contamination of food and water with human excrement are the cause of intestinal (gut) infections such as typhoid and paratyphoid fever, cholera, amoebiasis, shigellosis, tapeworm and other parasitic infestations.
  • Temperature and soil conditions are responsible for infestation due to hookworm and schistosomiasis for example.
  • Insect borne diseases include malaria, yellow fever, sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis. The malaria transmitting mosquito was once common in the south of England and, due to climate warming, could return.

Sexually transmitted diseases Hepatitis and HIV (AIDS) are prolific in many parts of Africa and Asia. If you have had unprotected sex with a potentially infected person whilst abroad, you may wish to consider the following:

  • Hepatitis A B C Profile
  • HIV Duo
  • or see Post Travel Profile 2 (12 weeks post travel)

Phlebotomy
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Blood Sample Kit
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Postage & Packaging
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Laboratory Analysis
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Medical Questionnaire
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Interpretation of Results
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Copy of Laboratory Results
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Helpline Card
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CODE
RICP


TYPE
Blood test


RESULTS
4   working days after receipt of sample.


PRICE
£284.84


DISCOUNTED
£252.00  ?


CONTENTS
Typhus fever group (R. typhi R. prowaekii)
Spotted fever group (R. Rickettsii, R. Siberica, etc.)
Rickettsia conorii
Weil-Felix Agglutination (OX19, OX2, OXK)