Successful diagnosis using scab for PCR specimen in Tsutsugamushi disease

Internal Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 408-411

  Akihiro, O N O ^a   Nakamura, Kumiko ^a   Higuchi, Seiichi ^a   Miwa, Yoshihiro ^a   Nakamura, Kazumi ^a   Tsunoda, Takeshi ^a   Kuwabara, Hidemasa ^a   Furuya, Yumiko ^b   Dobashi, Kunio ^c   Mori, Masatomo ^c  

^a National Hospital Organization Numata National Hospital   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^c GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Genome; Serotype; Trombiculid mites

Indexed keywords

MINOCYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INSECT BITE; MITE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCRUB TYPHUS; ANIMAL; BITES AND STINGS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; TROMBICULIDAE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BITES AND STINGS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MINOCYCLINE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCRUB TYPHUS; TROMBICULIDAE;

EID: 0036019085     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.41.408     Document Type: Article

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