Detection of antibodies against Orientia tsutsugamushi sca proteins in scrub typhus patients and genetic variation of sca genes of different strains

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1442-1451

  Ha, Na Young ^a   Kim, Yuri ^a   Choi, Ji Hye ^a   Choi, Myung Sik ^a   Kim, Ik Sang ^a   Kim, Yeon Sook ^b   Cho, Nam Hyuk ^a,c  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Chungnam National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INTERNAL REPEAT SEQUENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAA GENE; SCAB GENE; SCAC GENE; SCAD GENE; SCAE GENE; SCRUB TYPHUS;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCRUB TYPHUS;

EID: 84865959237     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00285-12     Document Type: Article

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