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New genotypes of Orientia tsutsugamushi isolated from humans in Eastern Taiwan.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Yang Hui-Hua, Huang I-Tsong, Lin Chin-Hui, Chen Tren-Yi, Chen Li-Kuang
Abstract excerpt
Scrub typhus, an acute febrile illness, is caused by the obligate intracellular bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi. In our study, O. tsutsugamushi was rapidly detected and typed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of the 56-kDa type-specific antigen (TSA) gene. To investigate the genotypes of clinical variants of O. tsutsugamushi, we collected 3223 blood...
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