| 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 |