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Orientia tsutsugamushi DNA load and genotypes in blood as a marker of severity.
Acta tropica - 1 Mar 2021
Kim Seok Won, Kim Choon-Mee, Kim Dong-Min, Yun Na Ra, Neupane Ganesh P, Pyun Sang-Hyun, Yu Byeong Jeon
Abstract excerpt
Scrub typhus is an acute febrile illness caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi and is endemic to many parts of the Asia-Pacific region. We investigated whether the genotype of O. tsutsugamushi or the DNA load would be a useful marker of disease severity in scrub typhus patients. We evaluated the clinical features, genotypes and bacterial DNA load in the blood of 118 patients, including 114 surviving and 4...
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