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Diversity of Orientia tsutsugamushi clinical isolates in Cambodia reveals active selection and recombination process.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Apr 2013
Duong Veasna, Blassdell Kim, May Thinh Thi Xuan, Sreyrath Lay, Gavotte Laurent, Morand Serge, Frutos Roger, Buchy Philippe
Abstract excerpt
Orientia tsutsugamushi, the causative agent of scrub typhus in South East Asia and Pacific, is an obligate intracellular bacterium closely related to the Rickettsia. The pathogen is transmitted to humans through the bites of infected larvae of trombiculid mites of the genus Leptotrombidium in which is maintained trough vertical transmission mechanism. The infection in rodents has been described in over 20...
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