Transmission Electron Microscopy Confirmation of Orientia tsutsugamushi in Human Bile

Scrub typhus, the third most frequently reported infectious disease in South Korea, causes serious public health problems. In 2019, we collected a bile specimen from a patient with scrub typhus through percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage and performed transmission electron microscopy to c...

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Autores principales: Lee, Yujeong, Kim, Seung Il, Yi, Yoon-sun, Lee, Hayoung, Hwang, Joo-Hee, Park, Edmond Changkyun, Jun, Sangmi, Lee, Chang-Seop
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020
Materias:
Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7706943/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33219812
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2612.202188
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Sumario:Scrub typhus, the third most frequently reported infectious disease in South Korea, causes serious public health problems. In 2019, we collected a bile specimen from a patient with scrub typhus through percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage and performed transmission electron microscopy to confirm the ultrastructure of Orientia tsutsugamushi.

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