New genotypes of Orientia tsutsugamushi isolated from humans in Eastern Taiwan.
Scrub typhus, an acute febrile illness, is caused by the obligate intracellular bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi.In our study, O.tsutsugamushi was rapidly detected and typed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of the 56-kDa type-specific antigen (TSA) gene.To investigate the genotypes of c