Affiliation:
1. ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Field Unit, Madurai 625 002, India
2. Department of Microbiology, Government Medical College and Hospital, Theni 625 512, India
3. ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Puducherry 605 006, India
Abstract
Scrub typhus (St) is a re-emerging mite-transmitted public health problem in Southeast Asia with escalating case incidences in the endemic areas. Though, more than 40 genotypes of the causative agent Orientia tsutsugamushi (Ot) have been documented, the information on the circulating genotypes in India is scanty. A hospital-based retrospective screening was undertaken to map the circulating molecular subtypes of the etiological agent in serologically confirmed scrub typhus (St) human cases, by targeting the GroEL gene of O. tsutsugamushi using the nested polymerase chain reaction method. Nine out of 34 samples (26%) yielded positive results and DNA sequencing analysis of six positive samples out of nine revealed that the sequences were related to three major genotypes, such as Karp (HSB1, FAR1), Kato (Wuj/2014, UT76), and Kawasaki (Kuroki, Boryong, Gilliam, and Hwasung). Additionally, the St-positive samples exhibited 100% and 99.45%; 97.53% and 97.81%; 96.99% nucleotide identity with the closely related Karp, Kato, and Kawasaki-related sequences, respectively. Overall, 94% of the nucleotides were conserved, and the variable site was 20/365 (5.5%). The prevalence of multiple genotypes among human cases further stresses the need to conduct in-depth studies to map the genotypes and their clinical relevance, and the contributing risk factors for the emergence of St cases in this area.
Funder
ICMR-VCRC Intra-mural funding
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,General Immunology and Microbiology
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