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New Orientia tsutsugamushi strain from scrub typhus in Australia
D M Odorico1, S R Graves, B Currie
1James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|December 29, 1998
Abstract:
In a recent case of scrub typhus in Australia, Orientia tsutsugamushi isolated from the patient's blood was tested by sequence analysis of the 16S rDNA gene. The sequence showed a strain of O. tsutsugamushi that was quite different from the classic Karp, Kato, and Gilliam strains. The new strain has been designated Litchfield.