Human Rickettsia Heilongjiangensis Infection, Japan

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2010 Aug 4

PMID 20678332

Citations 24

Authors

Shuji Ando

Masahiro Kurosawa

Akiko Sakata

Hiromi Fujita

Katsurou Sakai

Masao Sekine

Masanori Katsumi

Wakana Saitou

Yasuhiro Yano

Nobuhiro Takada

Ai Takano

Hiroki Kawabata

Nozomu Hanaoka

Haruo Watanabe

Ichiro Kurane

Toshio Kishimoto

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Abstract

A case of Rickettsia heilongjiangensis infection in Japan was identified in a 35-year-old man who had rash, fever, and eschars. Serum contained R. heilongjiangensis antibodies, and eschars contained R. heilongjiangensis DNA. R. heilongjiangensis was also isolated from ticks in the suspected geographic area of infection.

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