Emerging Infectious Diseases (Sep 2005)

Human Infection with Rickettsia honei, Thailand

  • Ju Jiang,
  • Vichai Sangkasuwan,
  • Kriangkrai Lerdthusnee,
  • Suchitra Sukwit,
  • Thippawan Chuenchitra,
  • Patrick J. Rozmajzl,
  • Chirapa Eamsila,
  • James W. Jones,
  • Allen L. Richards

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1109.050011
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 9
pp. 1473 – 1475

Abstract

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Human spotted fever rickettsiosis was detected molecularly by 2 real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays performed on DNA extracted from a Thai patient's serum sample. Sequences of PCR amplicons from 5 rickettsial genes used for multilocus sequence typing were 100% identical with those deposited with GenBank for Rickettsia honei TT-118.

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