National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Scrub typhus is one of the most under-diagnosed and under-reported febrile illnesses. Hence, a study was conducted to diagnose the scrub typhus by using Weil Felix test (WF), Immuno-Chromatographic Test (ICT) and nested PCR (N-PCR). The primer pairs encoding the 56-KDa antigen were used for confirmation of Orientia tsutsugamushi. Serotype-specific primers were used for identification of Gilliam, Karp, Kato, Kawasaki and Kuroki strains. Out of the 46 blood samples collected from suspected human patients, 13 were found serologically positive by both WF and ICT and 12 by N-PCR. All the 12 N-PCR positive samples were found positive for Karp strain. None of the rat blood samples were positive for O. tsutsugamushi.
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