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Clinical usefulness of 16S ribosomal RNA real-time PCR for the diagnosis of scrub typhus
12 Jul 2021
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Scrub typhus is a major acute febrile disease in the Asia-Pacific region. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the clinical usefulness of real-time PCR (Q-PCR) of 16S rRNA for the diagnosis of scrub typhus. We examined blood specimens from 148 adult patients who were confirmed to have scrub typhus from September 2008 to December 2009. Among the 148 scrub typhus patients, 36 patients were treated...
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