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Scrub typhus and Orientia:
geography and genotype of a vector-borne disease
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    • Site updates
  • Scrub typhus – a neglected disease
    • Early scientific tsutsugamushi reports
    • Significant recent news and findings
  • Geography
    • EXPANDED GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF SCRUB TYPHUS
  • The agents of scrub typhus
  • Diagnostic Methods
    • SEROLOGICAL DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
    • MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
  • Antibiotics: Treatment, Sensitivity and Resistance
  • The molecular genetics of scrub typhus
    • GROUP 1) SURFACE ANTIGEN GENES
      • 56 kDa Type Specific Antigen (TSA)
        • DNA sequences of the 56kDa TSA gene
      • 47-kDa membrane protease (htrA) gene
      • GroEL and GroES genes
      • 22-kDa CELL SURFACE ANTIGEN
    • GROUP 2) RIBOSOMAL RNA GENES
      • Ribosomal small subunit (16S) rRNA gene
      • Ribosomal large subunit (23S) rRNA gene
    • GROUP 3) Multi-locus Sequence Typing in Orientia
      • MLST Panel 1
      • MLST Panel 2
      • MLST PANEL 3
    • GROUP 4) GENES WITH POTENTIAL TO CONFER ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE
      • gyrA : DNA gyrase
      • Bcr/CflA drug resistance efflux transporter
      • The ABC-type multidrug transport system
      • RND family efflux transporters
      • Penicillin-binding proteins
      • Beta-lactamases
      • ampG1 – permease of the major facilitator superfamily
      • Microcin C resistance proteins
      • Additional Genes
      • Rickettsia genes missing in Orientia
      • Antibiotic Resistance Genes
    • FUTURE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE GENETIC VARIATION IN O. TSUTSUGAMUSHI
  • Phylogenetic relationships between isolates of scrub typhus
  • Genome sequences of scrub typhus isolates
  • Vectors of Scrub typhus
  • History of isolates of scrub typhus
    • The Gilliam strain
    • The Karp strain
    • The Kato strain
    • The Kuroki isolate
    • The Kawasaki isolate
    • The Shimokoshi isolate
    • The TA763 strain
    • The Boryong strain
    • The Kostival strain
    • Calcutta strain
  • Acknowledgments
  • American Society for Rickettsiology and other websites

American Society for Rickettsiology and other websites

Those interested in information on other members of the rickettsiaceae may want to access the website of the American Society of Rickettsiology.

Other websites with information :

CDC – Scub typhus

SEARO-WHO

Scrub typhus Australia

Travel Information (International Association for Medical Assistance to Travelers)

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