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Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:
Liu, Yun-Xi ; Cao, Wu-Chun ; Gao, Yuan ; Zhang, Jing-Lan ; Yang, Zhan-Qing ; ... More +
Liu, Yun-Xi ; Cao, Wu-Chun ; Gao, Yuan ; Zhang, Jing-Lan ; Yang, Zhan-Qing ; Zhao, Zhong-Tang ; Foley, Janet E. Less -
Description:
To verify the value of eschars for the diagnosis of scrub typhus and to characterize genotypes of Orientia tsutsugamushi in patients, we examined eschars and blood specimens of 7 patients from Shandong Province, People's Republic of China, for O. tsutsugamushi by polymerase chain reaction targeting the Sta56 gene. All 7 eschars and acute-phase blood samples were positive, while no specific DNA amplicons were obtained from the 7 convalescent-phase blood samples collected after antimicrobial drug therapy. The findings indicate that patients' eschars can be used for detection and genetic characterization of O. tsutsugamushi during the convalescent phase.
Subject:
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Adult
Antibodies, Bacterial
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Research
Scrub Typhus

Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 12(7):1109-1112.
Document Type:
Journal Article
Place as Subject:
China
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
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