| antibodies to orientia tsutsugamushi in thai soldiers. | thai soldiers who were conscripted, royal thai army forces, professional border patrol police, or local militia (thai rangers) located in any of seven provinces of thailand were bled in april and again, four months later, in july 1989. in 1991, soldiers from five different locations in southern thailand were bled once, in july. serum samples were tested by indirect fluorescent antibody assay for antibody to orientia (formerly rickettsia) tsutsugamushi, etiologic agent of scrub typhus, with any t ... | 1996 | 8940989 |
| seroprevalence of scrub typhus infection in patients with pyrexia at some malaria clinics in three western provinces of thailand. | in thailand, the epidemiological data on scrub typhus infection represents only "the tip of an iceberg" especially in malaria clinics where patients come to seek attention because of other febrile illnesses that may have initial clinical signs that are indistinguishable from malaria. the objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of antibody titers to orientia tsutsugamushi, and its various strains, among patients at some malaria clinics in three western provinces of thailand. the ... | 1998 | 9876950 |