The Diversity and Geographical Structure of Orientia tsutsugamushi Strains from Scrub Typhus Patients in Laos.

• Asıl Yazarlar: Rattanaphone Phetsouvanh (Yazar), Piengchan Sonthayanon (Yazar), Sasithon Pukrittayakamee (Yazar), Daniel H Paris (Yazar), Paul N Newton (Yazar), Edward J Feil (Yazar), Nicholas P J Day (Yazar)
• Materyal Türü: Kitap
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Konular: article
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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 isolates from t...