Scrub Typhus: The Geographic Distribution of Phenotypic and Genotypic Variants ofOrientia tsutsugamushi
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- 15 March 2009
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 48 (s3), S203-S230
- https://doi.org/10.1086/596576
Abstract
Orientia tsutsugamushi is the etiological agent of scrub typhus, an acute, mite-borne, febrile illness that occurs in the Asia-Pacific region. HistorKeywords
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