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Orientia tsutsugamushi

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Orientia tsutsugamushi
[ôr′e·enshe′ə tso̅o̅tso̅o̅gəmo̅o̅′she]
Etymology: L, oriens, east; Jpn, tsutsuga, illness + mushi, tick
a species of organisms, formerly known as Rickettsia tsutsugamushi, that causes scrub typhus. It is widespread throughout southern and eastern Asia, northern Australia, Indonesia, and the Pacific islands and is transmitted from infected rodents to humans by mites of the family Trombiculidae.
Orientia tsutsugamushi
obligately intracellular bacteria that cause scrub typhus in humans and many small feral mammals, especially rodents and occasionally dogs.
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typhi and Orientia tsutsugamushi (all IFA titers <128).
Diagnosis of Queensland tick typhus and African tick bite fever by ... by Wang, Jin-Mei; Hudson, Bernard J.; Watts, Matthew R.; Karagiannis, Tom; Fisher, Noel J.; Anderson, C / Emerging Infectious Diseases
general editor Antibodies to Orientia tsutsugamushi, Rickettsia typhii and spotted fever group rickettsiae among febrile patients in rural areas of Malaysia.
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Serosurveys conducted on Java, Sumatra, and islands in eastern Indonesia identified antibodies to Rickettsia typhi (murine typhus), to Orientia tsutsugamushi (scrub typhus), and to members of the spotted fever group rickettsia (SFGR) in healthy persons (1-3).
Murine typhus and leptospirosis as causes of acute undifferentiated ... by Gasem, M. Hussein; Wagenaar, Jiri F.P.; Goris, Marga G.A.; Adi, Mateus S.; Isbandrio, Bambang B.; Ha / Emerging Infectious Diseases
 
 
 
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