Isolation of a novel Orientia species (O. chuto sp. nov.) from a patient infected in Dubai

• Main Authors: Leonard Izzard, Andrew Fuller, Stuart D. Blacksell, Daniel H. Paris, Allen L. Richards, Nuntipa Aukkanit, Chelsea Nguyen, Ju Jiang, Stan Fenwick, Nicholas P.J. Day, Stephen Graves, John Stenos
• Other Authors: Geelong Hospital
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/29437
• Institution: Mahidol University

In July 2006, an Australian tourist returning from Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), developed acute scrub typhus. Her signs and symptoms included fever, myalgia, headache, rash, and eschar. Orientia tsutsugamushi serology demonstrated a 4-fold rise in antibody titers in paired serum collect...