Epidemiological characteristics of tsutsugamushi disease in Oita Prefecture, Japan: Yearly and monthly occurrences of its infections and serotypes of its causative agent, Orientia tsutsugamushi, during 1984-2005

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 135-143

  Ogawa, Masao ^a,b   Ono, Testuro ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Orientia tsutsugamushi; Serotype; Tsutsugamushi disease

Indexed keywords

DNA; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEROTYPE; TROMBICULIDAE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; RODENT; SEASON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPING;

ACARI; LEPTOTROMBIDIUM PALLIDUM; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; RICKETTSIA; RODENTIA; TROMBICULIDAE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE VECTORS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PHYLOGENY; RODENTIA; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEASONS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEROTYPING; TROMBICULIDAE;

EID: 51449103679     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: 13480421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2008.00024.x     Document Type: Article

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