Dual Genotype Orientia tsutsugamushi Infection in Patient with Rash and Eschar, Vietnam, 2016.

ABSTRACT: We report a dual genotype Orientia tsutsugamushi infection in Vietnam in 2016. The patient had fever, rash, and an eschar. The Kawasaki genotype was identified in the eschar specimen and Karp genotype in the whole blood specimen. The genotype co-infection rate for scrub typhus is unknown and should be further evaluated.

SUBMITTER: Le-Viet N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6056126 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature