Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 1998)

New Orientia tsutsugamushi Strain from Scrub Typhus in Australia

  • Dimitri M. Odorico,
  • Stephen R. Graves,
  • Bart J. Currie,
  • Julian Catmull,
  • Zoltan Nack,
  • Sharon Ellis,
  • Ling Wang,
  • David J. Miller

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0404.980416
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 4
pp. 641 – 644

Abstract

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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.

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