Detection of Orientia sp. DNA in rodents from Asia, West Africa and Europe

Parasit Vectors. 2015 Mar 21:8:172. doi: 10.1186/s13071-015-0784-7.

Abstract

Orientia bacterium is the agent of the scrub typhus, a seriously neglected life-threatening disease in Asia. Here, we report the detection of DNA of Orientia in rodents from Europe and Africa. These findings have important implications for public health. Surveillance outside Asia, where the disease is not expected by sanitary services, needs to be improved.

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Africa, Western / epidemiology
  • Animals
  • Asia / epidemiology
  • DNA, Bacterial / chemistry
  • DNA, Bacterial / genetics
  • Europe / epidemiology
  • Humans
  • Orientia tsutsugamushi / genetics
  • Orientia tsutsugamushi / isolation & purification*
  • Phylogeny
  • Rodentia / microbiology
  • Scrub Typhus / epidemiology
  • Scrub Typhus / microbiology
  • Scrub Typhus / veterinary*

Substances

  • DNA, Bacterial