Characterization of Orientia tsutsugamushi isolated from wild-caught rodents and chiggers in northern Thailand

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 990, Issue , 2003, Pages 205-212

  Khuntirat, B ^a   Lerdthusnee, Kriangkrai ^a,b   Leepitakrat, W ^a   Kengluecha, A ^a   Wongkalasin, K ^a   Monkanna, T ^a   Mungviriya, S ^a   Jones, J W ^a   Coleman, R E ^a  

^a U S ARMY   (United States)

^b ARMED FORCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Genotyping; Orientia tsutsugamushi; PCR; RFLP; Scrub typhus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL TISSUE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; KIDNEY; LIVER; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SCRUB TYPHUS; SPLEEN; THAILAND;

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

EID: 0038052714     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2003.tb07364.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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