Volume 19, Number 7—July 2013
Dispatch
Genetic Variants of Orientia tsutsugamushi in Domestic Rodents, Northern China
Meng Zhang, Zhong-Tang Zhao
, Xian-Jun Wang, Zhong Li, Lei Ding, Shu-Jun Ding, and Hui-Li Yang
, Xian-Jun Wang, Zhong Li, Lei Ding, Shu-Jun Ding, and Hui-Li Yang
Table
Rates of Orientia tsutsugamushi positivity among domestic rodents , Tai’an, China, September 2010–March 2012*
| Rodent species | Season, no. positive/no. tested (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring | Summer | Autumn | Winter | Total | |
| Mus musculus | 2/18 (11.1) | 0/21 (0) | 3/60 (5.0) | 1/40 (2.5) | 6/139 (4.3) |
| Rattus norvegicus | 1/39 (2.6) | 0/31 (0) | 3/131 (2.3) | 0/43 (0) | 4/244 (1.6) |
| R. rattus |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0/2 (0) |
0/2 (0) |
| Total |
3/57 (5.3) |
0/52 (0) |
6/191 (3.1) |
1/85 (1.2) |
10/385 (2.6) |
| *Determined by PCR. | |||||
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