Molecular confirmation of scrub typhus infection and characterization of Orientia tsutsugamushi genotype from Karnataka, India

Suspecting fever due to common tropical febrile illness, investigations such as blood cultures, quantitative buffy coat for malaria, dengue IgM ELISA, leptospira IgM ELISA, Widal test, and tests for scrub typhus were performed according to the standard protocols. [...]scrub typhus is one of the impo...

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Published inJournal of vector borne diseases Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 185 - 187
Main Authors Koraluru, Munegowda, Bairy, Indira, Singh, Rahul, Varma, Muralidhar, Stenos, John
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published India Wolters Kluwer - Medknow Publications 01.04.2016
Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd
Medknow Publications & Media Pvt. Ltd
Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
Subjects
Abdomen
Antigens
Care and treatment
Deoxyribonucleic acid
Diagnosis
Disease
DNA
Fever
Genetic aspects
Genotype & phenotype
Genotypes
Headaches
Hospitals
Identification and classification
Ikeda; molecular phylogeny; nested PCR; scrub typhus; Weil-Felix test
Illnesses
Laboratories
Methods
Molecular diagnostic techniques
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
Polymerase chain reaction
Rickettsiae
Scrub typhus
Tropical diseases
Typhus
India
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Summary:Suspecting fever due to common tropical febrile illness, investigations such as blood cultures, quantitative buffy coat for malaria, dengue IgM ELISA, leptospira IgM ELISA, Widal test, and tests for scrub typhus were performed according to the standard protocols. [...]scrub typhus is one of the important cause of acute febrile illness in Karnataka, India.
ISSN:0972-9062
DOI:10.4103/0972-9062.184858