Newly isolated strains of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi in Japan identified by using monoclonal antibodies to Karp, Gilliam, and Kato strains

T Yamashita; S Kasuya; S Noda; I Nagano; S Ohtsuka; H Ohtomo

doi:10.1128/jcm.26.9.1859-1860.1988

Newly isolated strains of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi in Japan identified by using monoclonal antibodies to Karp, Gilliam, and Kato strains

J Clin Microbiol. 1988 Sep;26(9):1859-60. doi: 10.1128/jcm.26.9.1859-1860.1988.

Authors

T Yamashita¹, S Kasuya, S Noda, I Nagano, S Ohtsuka, H Ohtomo

Affiliation

¹ Department of Parasitology, Gifu University School of Medicine, Japan.

Abstract

Four isolated strains of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi from patients in a new endemic area of Japan were tested for antigenicities by using 12 monoclonal antibodies to Karp, Gilliam, and Kato strains. It was suggested that one isolate was Karp related and that the others were two independent strains.

MeSH terms

Animals
Antibodies, Monoclonal* / immunology
Antibody Specificity
Antigens, Bacterial / analysis*
Cross Reactions
Fluorescent Antibody Technique
Humans
Hybridomas
Mice
Orientia tsutsugamushi / classification*
Orientia tsutsugamushi / immunology
Orientia tsutsugamushi / isolation & purification
Scrub Typhus / microbiology*

Substances

Antibodies, Monoclonal
Antigens, Bacterial