TY - JOUR AU - Odorico, Dimitri M. AU - Graves, Stephen R. AU - Currie, Bart AU - Catmull, Julian AU - Nack, Zoltan AU - Ellis, Sharon AU - Wang, Ling AU - Miller, David J. T1 - New Orientia tsutsugamushi Strain from Scrub Typhus in Australia T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 1998 VL - 4 IS - 4 SP - 641 SN - 1080-6059 AB - In a recent case of scrub typhus in Australia, Orientia tsutsugamushi isolated from the patient's blood was tested by sequence analysis of the 16S rDNA gene. The sequence showed a strain of O. tsutsugamushi that was quite different from the classic Karp, Kato, and Gilliam strains. The new strain has been designated Litchfield. KW - Australia DO - 10.3201/eid0404.980416 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/4/4/98-0416_article ER - End of Reference