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Human Rickettsia heilongjiangensis Infection, Japan |
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| 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 |
| 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. |
| Keywords: | vector-borne infections Rickettsia heilongjiangensis Rickettsia japonica Haemaphysalis concinna ticks spotted fever group rickettsiae bacteria Japan dispatch |