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Genotype identification of Orientia tsutsugamushi isolated from Nan Peng Lie Islands in China.
Chinese medical journal - 1 Dec 2002
Peng Guifu, Wang Zhibing, Wang Shanshan, Huang Jialiang, Jiang Pulin, Zeng Nianhua, Liu Jinhua, Zhu Shaofan
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To identify genotype of eight strains of Orientia tsutsugamushi (O. tsutsugamushi) isolated from Nan Peng Lie Islands in China and establish tsutsugamushi disease nature foci for this region. METHODS: The nested polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) were used. Three primers were selected from the DNA sequence of the gene encoding type-specific 56-kDa protein...
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