Genotyping of Orientia tsutsugamushi from humans with scrub typhus, Laos

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1483-1485

  Parola, Philippe ^a   Blacksell, Stuart D ^b,c,d   Phetsouvanh, Rattanaphone ^b   Phongmany, Simaly ^b   Rolain, Jean Marc ^a   Day, Nicholas P J ^b,c,d   Newton, Paul N ^b,c   Raoult, Didier ^a,e  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b MAHOSOT HOSPITAL   (Laos)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LETTER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCRUB TYPHUS;

GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LAOS; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; SCRUB TYPHUS;

EID: 50849128501     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1409.071259     Document Type: Letter

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