Scrub typhus: The geographic distribution of phenotypic and genotypic variants of orientia tsutsugamushi

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 48, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2009, Pages

  Kelly, Daryl J ^a   Fuerst, Paul A ^a   Ching, Wei Mei ^b   Richards, Allen L ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEROPREVALENCE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG DESIGN; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEALTH; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; REVIEW;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL VACCINE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BACTERIAL VACCINES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG DESIGN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; SCRUB TYPHUS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 62349135248     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/596576     Document Type: Article

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