| transmission of rickettsia tsutsugamushi strains among humans, wild rodents, and trombiculid mites in an area of japan in which tsutsugamushi disease is newly endemic. | thirty-two newly isolated strains of rickettsia tsutsugamushi, 14 from patients with tsutsugamushi disease, 12 from wild rodents, and 6 from trombiculid mites parasitizing rodents in gifu prefecture, japan, were examined for reactivities to 12 monoclonal antibodies by an indirect fluorescent-antibody test to classify their antigenicities. all of the isolates could be classified into one of six groups (kn-1, kn-2, kn-3, gj-1, r158, and r161) according to their reactivities to the monoclonal antib ... | 1994 | 7852572 |