Tsutsugamushi in Osumi districts

Canine Orientia tsutsugamushi infeCtion

A lethargic household dog was referred to a private hospital in Japan. Diagnosis was carried out by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method developed for human Orientia tsutsugamushi infection using the dog’s anticoagulated peripheral blood. Karp, Kato and Kuroki-type genomes were detected and the dog was diagnosed with O. tsutsugamushi infection. These findings demonstrate that dogs can act...

Occurrence of scrub typhus (Tsutsugamushi) in Kanagawa Prefecture and types of Orientia tsutsugamushi involved.

gene (tdh) and the thermostable direct hemolysin-related hemolysingene (blh) of Vibrio parahaemolyticus by polymerase chain reaction. Mol. Cell. Probes, 6, 477-487. 3. Sugiyama, A., Nakano, Y., Iwade, Y., Yamauchi, A., Nakayama, 0., Matsumoto, T., Kou, Y., Ito, T., Nishinaka, T. and Shoji, T. (1 999): Isolation of thermostable direct hemolysin-producing Vibrio parahaemolyticusfrom food implicat...

Current status of tsutsugamushi disease in Korea.

Scrub Typhus (Tsutsugamushi Disease) in Bombay

grassy terrain, camping sites, on banks of inundated rivers?in general exclusively from rural as opposed to urban areas, where the cases of typhus, when they occur, are 0X19 in type. In the present series, the diagnoses were made in the first instance during the course of routine examination of sera from pyrexial cases for evidence of typhus infection. A review of the clinical course of the dis...

Persistence of Orientia tsutsugamushi in Humans

We investigated the persistence of viable Orientia tsutsugamushi in patients who had recovered from scrub typhus. Blood specimens were available from six patients with scrub typhus who were at 1 to 18 months after the onset of the illness. The EDTA-treated blood specimens were inoculated into ECV304 cells, and cultures were maintained for 7 months. Sequencing of the 56-kDa type-specific antigen...