Virulence in mice of Orientia tsutsugamushi isolated from patients in a new endemic area in Japan

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 743-747

  Nagano, Isao ^a   Kasuya, Shiro ^a   Noda, Nobuji ^b   Yamashita, Teruo ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Gifu Prefectural Institute of Health and Environmental Sciences   (Japan)

Author keywords

Orientia tsutsugamushi; Scrub typhus; Virulence in mice

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; JAPAN; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; SCRUB TYPHUS; SPLENOMEGALY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; RICKETTSIA;

EID: 0029858744     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1996.tb01135.x     Document Type: Article

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