| epidemiological survey of orientia tsutsugamushi distribution in field rodents in saitama prefecture, japan, and discovery of a new type. | there are various antigenic variants of orientia tsutsugamushi which are distinguished by immunological and molecular genetic methods targeted at the antigenic diversity of 56-kda type-specific antigen proteins. the present study was performed to analyze 15 strains successfully isolated from rodents in saitama prefecture, japan, by 56-kda gene sequence homologies, reactivities with type-specific monoclonal antibodies and polymerase chain reaction (pcr) using type-specific primer-pairs. we demons ... | 2001 | 11497219 |