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First isolate of <i>Orientia tsutsugamushi</i> from Vellore, South India
2023-11-21
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<h4>Background</h4> Scrub typhus a common cause of acute febrile illness in India caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi an obligate intracellular bacterium requiring cell culture for isolation. Cell lines like Vero and L929 are most suitable for isolating and maintaining this organism. This study was undertaken to isolate and characterize of Orientia tsutsugamu s hi from whole blood samples at a tertiary care centr...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 0bad3510-f541-51da-bb45-b35827b47ca6
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.11.21.568027
