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Orientia tsutsugamushi (Rickettsia tsutsugamushi)

Pathology: - etiologic agent of scrub typhus Laboratory: - Orientia tsutsugamushi serology - Orientia tsutsugamushi DNA - Orientia tsutsugamushi culture

Related

scrub typhus; Japanese river fever

General

Orientia

Properties

KINGDOM: monera DIVISION: SCHIZOMYCETES

References

  1. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 14th ed. Fauci et al (eds), McGraw-Hill Inc. NY, 1998, pg 91
  2. Wikipedia: Orientia tsutsugamushi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientia_tsutsugamushi