Characterization of Orientia tsutsugamushi isolated in Taiwan by immunofluorescence and restriction fragment length polymorphism analyses

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 225-231

  Tamura, Akira ^a   Ohashi, Norio ^a   Koyama, Yoko ^a   Fukuhara, Masahiro ^a   Kawamori, Fumihiko ^b   Otsuru, Masamitsu ^c   Wu, Ping Fuai ^d   Lin, Shen Yu ^d  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b University of Shizuoka   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^d Executive Yuan   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Antigenic subtype; Orientia tsutsugamushi; PCR RFLP; Phenotyping

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TAIWAN;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; L CELLS (CELL LINE); MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RODENTIA; SCRUB TYPHUS; TAIWAN; TROMBICULIASIS; TROMBICULIDAE;

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

EID: 0030967582     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00119-5     Document Type: Article

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