| epidemiology of tsutsugamushi disease in relation to the serotypes of rickettsia tsutsugamushi isolated from patients, field mice, and unfed chiggers on the eastern slope of mount fuji, shizuoka prefecture, japan. | a total of 59 strains of rickettsia tsutsugamushi were isolated from patients (24 isolates), apodemus speciosus mice (30 isolates), and unfed larvae of leptotrombidium scutellare (2 isolates) and leptotrombidium pallidum (3 isolates) in the gotenba-oyama district, shizuoka prefecture, japan. all these isolates were classified into the three serotypes karp, kawasaki, and kuroki based on reactivity with strain-specific monoclonal antibodies. kawasaki- and karp-type rickettsiae were isolated from l ... | 1992 | 1452653 |
| [tsutsugamushi disease during the last seven years in the past in hamamatsu city, shizuoka prefecture--including evaluation of hyponatremia in scrub typhus]. | six cases of scrub typhus (tsutsugamushi disease) were reported to the shizuoka prefecture hamamatsu city public health center during the seven years from 2001 to 2007. the content of the clinical record of the five cases were investigated. high serum titers of antibody to gilliam-type orientia tsutsugamushi were detected by immunofluorescense assay in most of these patients. fever, rash, headache and relative bradycardia seen at a high frequency. on peripheral blood smear examination, atypical ... | 2008 | 18697486 |