title: Prevalence of genotypes of Orientia tsutsugamushi in patients with scrub typhus in Miyazaki Prefecture.
abstract: The genotypes of Orientia tsutsugamushi in patients with scrub typhus in Miyazaki Prefecture were examined by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and the restriction fragment length polymorphism method. Specific patterns for genotypes Irie, Hirano, Tazume and Yoshimura were detected in 26, 6, 5 and 2 of 39 DNA samples obtained from peripheral blood mononuclear cells, respectively. DNA sequences of the PCR products from the Tazume strain were genetically very close to the Hirano strain and the Yoshimura strain was also very close to the Karp strain. Furthermore, the DNA sequences from the Irie and Tazume strains were completely homologous to the reported sequences of the Kawasaki and Kuroki strains, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine II, Miyazaki University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Horinouchi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Murai
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Okayama
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nagatomo
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tachibana
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tsubouchi
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D007963:Leukocytes, Mononuclear / Q000382:microbiology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012285:Orientia tsutsugamushi / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D015995:Prevalence; D012612:Scrub Typhus / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid