Isolation of Orientia tsutsugamushi from patients in Shikoku and finding of a strain which grows preferentially at low temperatures

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 979-981

  Tamura, Akira ^a   Makisaka, Yukie ^a   Enatsu, Teruyuki ^a   Urakami, Hiroshi ^a   Okubo, Koji ^a   Fukuhara, Masahiro ^a   Mahara, Fumihiko ^b  

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

^b Mahara Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Isolation; Orientia tsutsugamushi; Temperature sensitive strain

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; LOW TEMPERATURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

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

EID: 0032750699     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1999.tb03359.x     Document Type: Article

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