Genomic bacterial load associated with bacterial genotypes and clinical characteristics in patients with scrub typhus in Hainan Island, Southern China.

• Main Authors: Gaoyu Wang (Author), Ruijia Fu (Author), Liyuan Zhang (Author), Liying Xue (Author), Abdullah Y Al-Mahdi (Author), Xiaofei Xie (Author), Aiping Qin (Author), Chuanning Tang (Author), Jiang Du (Author), Yi Huang (Author), Yueping Wang (Author), Jian Su (Author), Shengkai Huang (Author), Ruoyan Peng (Author), Zhe Lu (Author), Jing An (Author), Changjia Sun (Author), Hua Yang (Author), Changhua He (Author), Kwok-Yung Yuen (Author), Jasper Fuk-Woo Chan (Author), Yongguo Du (Author), Meifang Xiao (Author), Long Sun (Author), Feifei Yin (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2023-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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Scrub typhus, caused by mite-borne Orientia tsutsugamushi (O. tsutsugamushi), is a major febrile disease in the Asia-Pacific region. The DNA load of O. tsutsugamushi in the blood was previously found to be significantly higher in patients with fatal disease than those with non-fatal disease and corr...