TY - JOUR AU - Le-Viet, Nhiem AU - Phan, Duc-Tuan AU - Le-Viet, Nho AU - Trinh, Sinh AU - To, Muoi AU - Raoult, Didier AU - Parola, Philippe T1 - Dual Genotype Orientia tsutsugamushi Infection in Patient with Rash and Eschar, Vietnam, 2016 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2018 VL - 24 IS - 8 SP - 1520 SN - 1080-6059 AB - 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. KW - scrub typhus KW - dual genotype infection KW - eschar KW - skin rash KW - Vietnam KW - Kawasaki KW - Karp KW - vector-borne infections KW - bacteria KW - Orientia tsutsugamushi KW - rash KW - zoonoses DO - 10.3201/eid2408.171622 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/8/17-1622_article ER - End of Reference