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. 2006 Oct;12(10):1590-2.
doi: 10.3201/eid1210.051697.

Scrub typhus in Himalayas

Sanjay K Mahajan  1 , Jean-Marc Rolain, Rajesh Kashyap, Diprabhanu Bakshi, Vijay Sharma, Bhupal Singh Prasher, Lal Singh Pal, Didier Raoult
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Scrub typhus in Himalayas

Sanjay K Mahajan et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 Oct.

Abstract

Himachal Pradesh state of India is situated in the outer Himalayan ranges. During the rainy season, several cases of acute febrile illness of unknown origin occurred. Orientia tsutsugamushi was identified as the causative agent by microimmunofluorescence and PCR. Two new genotypes of O. tsutsugamushi were identified in the region.

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Phylogenetic tree produced by unweighted pair-group method with arithmetic means that shows the positions of IHS I and IHS II genotypes based on the partial 56-kDa sequence homologies. Numbers at nodes indicate bootstrap values, and the scale bar shows genetic distance of 0.02.
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