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SUBMITTER: Park SW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2946772 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Park Sang-Won SW Lee Chi Kug CK Kwak Yee Gyung YG Moon Chisook C Kim Baek-Nam BN Kim Eu Suk ES Kang Jae Myung JM Lee Chang-Seop CS
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20101001 4
This study was performed to determine the nationwide antigenic diversity of Orientia tsutsugamushi in South Korea. Sequence analysis was performed around variable domains I and II of a 56-kDa protein-encoding gene. We used eschar to overcome the disadvantages of conventional serotyping. The serological passive hemagglutination assay (PHA) was assessed based on the genotyping results. We analyzed 153 isolates from scrub typhus patients in major endemic areas and found that Boryong was the major s ...[more]