Annual incidence of tsutsugamushi disease caused by different serotypes of Orientia tsutsugamushi in Miyazaki Prefecture in 1991-1999

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 126-127

  Yamamoto, Seigo ^a   Kizoe, Kazuhiro ^a   Yoshino, Syuji ^a   Hagiwara, Toshikatsu ^b  

^a Miyazaki Prefectural Institute for Public Health and Environment   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MITE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEASON; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEASONS; SEROTYPING;

EID: 0033800080     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (5)

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2. Antigenic types of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi isolated from patients with Tsutsugamushi fever and their distribution in Miyazaki Prefecture
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4. Characterization of a new antigenic type, Kuroki, of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi isolated from patients in Japan
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