Emerging Infectious Diseases (Feb 2023)

Molecular Detection of Candidatus Orientia chuto in Wildlife, Saudi Arabia

  • Hadil A. Alkathiry,
  • Samia Q. Alghamdi,
  • Holly E.J. Morgan,
  • Madeleine E. Noll,
  • Jing J. Khoo,
  • Abdulaziz N. Alagaili,
  • Benjamin L. Makepeace

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2902.221131
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 29, no. 2
pp. 402 – 406

Abstract

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Scrub typhus is a zoonosis caused by 3 species of Orientia bacteria, including Candidatus Orientia chuto. This species is known only from a human case in Dubai and infections in wildlife in Kenya. We report molecular detection of Candidatus O. chuto in 2 wild rodent species from Saudi Arabia.

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