Genetic Variants of Orientia tsutsugamushi in Domestic Rodents, Northern China
We screened Orientia tsutsugamushi from 385 domestic rodents and 19 humans with scrub typhus in rural Tai’an District, Shandong Province, a new scrub typhus epidemic area in northern China. Sequence analysis identified 7 genotypes in the rodents, of which 2 were also identified in the humans.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2013-07-01
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| Series: | Emerging Infectious Diseases |
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| Online Access: | https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/19/7/12-0984_article |