The diversity and geographical structure of orientia tsutsugamushi strains from scrub typhus patients in Laos
<p>Orientia tsutsugamushi is the causative agent of scrub typhus, a disease transmitted by Leptotrombidium mites which is responsible for a severe and under-reported public health burden throughout Southeast Asia. Here we use multilocus sequence typing (MLST) to characterize 74 clinical isolat...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2015
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