Molecular characterization of Orientia tsutsugamushi serotypes causing scrub typhus outbreak in southern region of Andhra Pradesh, India

Molecular characterization of Orientia tsutsugamushi serotypes causing scrub typhus outbreak in southern region of Andhra Pradesh, India

Background & objectives: Scrub typhus is a vector-borne zoonotic infection caused by Orientiatsutsugamushi. Local epidemiology of the circulating serotypes of scrub typhus is not available from most parts of India. We conducted this study for the diagnosis of scrub typhus using IgM ELISA and to...

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Main Authors: K Usha, E Kumar, Usha Kalawat, B Siddhartha Kumar, A Chaudhury, D. V. R. Sai Gopal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2016-01-01
Series:Indian Journal of Medical Research
Subjects:
56 kDa gene - blood clot - Karp - Kawasaki - nested polymerase chain reaction - Orientia tsutsugamushi - scrub typhus
Online Access:http://www.ijmr.org.in/article.asp?issn=0971-5916;year=2016;volume=144;issue=4;spage=597;epage=603;aulast=Usha

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