Isolation of a novel Orientia species (O. chuto sp. nov.) from a patient infected in Dubai

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4404-4409

  Izzard, Leonard ^a,b   Fuller, Andrew ^c   Blacksell, Stuart D ^d,e   Paris, Daniel H ^d,e   Richards, Allen L ^d,f,g   Aukkanit, Nuntipa ^d,e   Nguyen, Chelsea ^a   Jiang, Ju ^f   Fenwick, Stan ^b   Day, Nicholas P J ^d   Graves, Stephen ^a   Stenos, John ^a,b  

^a GEELONG HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^g Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUBAI; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; ORIENTIA; ORIENTIA CHUTO; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; SCRUB TYPHUS; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOOD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIEAE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRAVEL; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

ORIENTIA; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI;

EID: 78650053546     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01526-10     Document Type: Article

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