New Genotypes and Diversity of Orientia tsutsugamushi Isolated from Scrub Typhus Patients in South Korea as Determined by Multilocus Sequence Typing
J.-H. Hwang, J. Kim, I. O. Sun, T. H. Lee, K. M. Chung, C.-S. Lee
This study identifies new genotypes of Orientia tsutsugamushi from South Korean scrub typhus patients using MLST, finding 10 new alleles and six novel sequence types, with ST48 being the most prevalent.
bioRxiv · Aug 13, 2020 · PreprintMicrobiology