Endemic Scrub Typhus–like Illness, Chile

We report a case of scrub typhus in a 54-year-old man who was bitten by several terrestrial leeches during a trip to Chiloé Island in southern Chile in 2006. A molecular sample, identified as related to Orientia tsutsugamushi based on the sequence of the16S rRNA gene, was obtained from a biopsy spec...

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Autores principales: Balcells, M. Elvira, Rabagliati, Ricardo, García, Patricia, Poggi, Helena, Oddó, David, Concha, Marcela, Abarca, Katia, Jiang, Ju, Kelly, Daryl J., Richards, Allen L., Fuerst, Paul A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2011
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3322051/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21888791
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1709.100960

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