title: Detection of Orientia sp. DNA in rodents from Asia, West Africa and Europe.
abstract: Orientia bacterium is the agent of the scrub typhus, a seriously neglected life-threatening disease in Asia. Here, we report the detection of DNA of Orientia in rodents from Europe and Africa. These findings have important implications for public health. Surveillance outside Asia, where the disease is not expected by sanitary services, needs to be improved.
authors.affiliation: INRA, CBGP, 755 Avenue Campus Agropolis, Montferrier sur Lez, CS30016, 34988, France. cosson@supagro.inra.fr.
authors.forename: Jean François
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Cosson
authors.affiliation: INRA, CBGP, 755 Avenue Campus Agropolis, Montferrier sur Lez, CS30016, 34988, France. galan@supagro.inra.fr.
authors.forename: Maxime
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Galan
authors.affiliation: INRA, EpiA, Clermont-Ferrand, France. ebard@clermont.inra.fr.
authors.forename: Emilie
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bard
authors.affiliation: INRA, CBGP, 755 Avenue Campus Agropolis, Montferrier sur Lez, CS30016, 34988, France. maria.razzauti@supagro.inra.fr.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Razzauti
authors.affiliation: INRA, GABI, Sigenae, Domaine de Vilvert, Jouy en Josas, 78352, France. mabernard@jouy.inra.fr.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bernard
authors.affiliation: CNRS-CIRAD, Centre d'Infectiologie Christophe Mérieux du Laos, Vientiane, Lao PDR. serge.morand@cirad.fr.|Department of Helminthology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. serge.morand@cirad.fr.
authors.forename: Serge
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Morand
authors.affiliation: Ird, CBGP, 755 avenue du campus Agropolis, Montferrier sur Lez cedex, CS 30016, 34988, France. carine.brouat@ird.fr.
authors.forename: Carine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Brouat
authors.affiliation: Ird, CBGP, 755 avenue du campus Agropolis, Montferrier sur Lez cedex, CS 30016, 34988, France. ambroise.dalecky@ird.fr.|IRD, Aix Marseille Université, LPED (UMR IRD-AMU), Marseille, France. ambroise.dalecky@ird.fr.
authors.forename: Ambroise
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dalecky
authors.affiliation: Ird, CBGP, Campus ISRA/IRD de Bel Air, BP 1386, Dakar, CP 18524, Senegal. khalilou.Ba@ird.fr.
authors.forename: Khalilou
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bâ
authors.affiliation: INRA, CBGP, 755 Avenue Campus Agropolis, Montferrier sur Lez, CS30016, 34988, France. nathalie.charbonnel@supagro.inra.fr.
authors.forename: Nathalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Charbonnel
authors.affiliation: INRA, Bipar, 23 Av. Général de Gaulle, Maisons-Alfort, France. mvayssier@vet-alfort.fr.
authors.forename: Muriel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vayssier-Taussat
mesh_terms: D000354:Africa, Western / Q000453:epidemiology; D000818:Animals; D001208:Asia / Q000453:epidemiology; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D005060:Europe / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D012285:Orientia tsutsugamushi / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D010802:Phylogeny; D012377:Rodentia / Q000382:microbiology; D012612:Scrub Typhus / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial