Orientia tsutsugamushi in Eschars from scrub typhus patients

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1109-1112

  Liu, Yun Xi ^a   Cao, Wu Chun ^a   Gao, Yuan ^b   Zhang, Jing Lan ^b   Yang, Zhan Qing ^b   Zhao, Zhong Tang ^c   Foley, Janet E ^d  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^b Jinan Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHINA; CONVALESCENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOTYPE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TYPHUS;

EID: 33745963760     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1207.050827     Document Type: Article

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