| rickettsiosis in japan. | the rickettsial diseases of man in japan include tsutsugamushi disease (scrub typhus), murine typhus, which occurs sporadically, and one of spotted fever group diseases, recognized as a new entity since 1984. starting from 1976, there has been a remarkable resurgence in the number of reported cases of tsutsugamushi disease in japan after several years of virtual absence, and endemics are still continuing after reaching a prominent outbreak in 1984. its yearly incidences from 1982 to 1986 were 53 ... | 1988 | 3210342 |
| isolation of orientia tsutsugamushi from patients in shikoku and finding of a strain which grows preferentially at low temperatures. | three strains of orientia tsutsugamushi were isolated from patients in anan city, tokushima prefecture. the strains were identified as karp type by analyses of reactivities with type-specific monoclonal antibodies. one strain, okazaki, was isolated in l cells cultivated at 31 c, but not in cells at 36 c or in mice. this strain showed better growth at 31 c than 36 c. this is the first report of an o. tsutsugamushi strain which grows preferentially at low temperatures. | 1999 | 10585145 |