First report of an Orientia tsutsugamushi type TA716-related scrub typhus infection in Thailand.
Orientia tsutsugamushi causes scrub typhus and is a rural zoonosis endemic in the Asia Pacific region. This is the first report of O. tsutsugamushi TA716-like strain in a human in Thailand. The patient was in the 1st trimester of pregnancy when she developed scrub typhus. The O. tsutsugamushi strain...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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