| isolation and characterization of orientia tsutsugamushi from rodents captured following a scrub typhus outbreak at a military training base, bothong district, chonburi province, central thailand. | orientia tsutsugamushi, an obligate intracellular gram-negative bacterium, is the causative agent of scrub typhus, a vector-borne disease transmitted by infected chiggers (trombiculid mite larvae). in 2002, an outbreak of scrub typhus occurred among royal thai army troops during the annual field training at a military base in bothong district, chonburi province, central thailand. this report describes the outbreak investigation including its transmission cycle. results showed that 33.9% of 174 t ... | 2011 | 21460017 |