Human infection with Rickettsia honei, Thailand

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作者
Jiang, J
Sangkasuwan, V
Lerdthusnee, K
Sukwit, S
Chuenchitra, T
Rozmajzl, PJ
Eamsila, C
Jones, JW
Richards, AL [1 ]
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[1] USN, Med Res Ctr, Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA
[2] USA, Royal Thai Army, Res Inst Med Sci, Bangkok, Thailand
[3] USA Component, USAF, Res Inst Med Sci, Bangkok, Thailand
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10.3201/eid1109.050011
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R392 [医学免疫学]; Q939.91 [免疫学];
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100102 ;
摘要
Human spotted fever rickettsiosis was detected molecularly by 2 real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays performed on DNA extracted from a Thai patient's serum sample. Sequences of PCR amplicons from 5 rickettsial genes used for multilocus sequence typing were 100% identical with those deposited with GenBank for Rickettsia honei TT- 118.
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