Publications

[analysis of prevalent orientia tsutsugamushi in aichi prefecture].	orientia tsutsugamushi was isolated from one of 8 patients' sera in aichi prefecture, and was identified to have the same antigenicity with the kn-2 strain (kn-2 like) based on the reactivity with 13 types of strain-specific or cross-reactive monoclonal antibodies to karp, gilliam, and kato strains. four isolates from 4 unfed larvae and adult of leptotrombidium pallidum were also classified as the kn-3 like strains. using indirect immunofluorescence, sera from 20 patients with tsutsugamushi dise ...	1999	10655679
isolation of orientia tsutsugamushi from leptotrombidium fuji and its characterization.	in our attempts to isolate orientia tsutsugamushi from trombiculid mites, a strain was successfully isolated from leptotrombidium fuji collected in aichi prefecture, japan. this is the first case of isolation of o. tsutsugamushi from l. fuji. a phylogenetic analysis based on the base-sequence homology of the 56-kda type-specific antigen-gene indicated that the strain is a new type which is not closely related to any strains analyzed previously. three strains isolated from leptotrombidium pallidu ...	2000	10789509