Emerging Infectious Diseases (Nov 2018)

Japanese Spotted Fever in Eastern China, 2013

  • Jiabin Li,
  • Wen Hu,
  • Ting Wu,
  • Hong-Bin Li,
  • Wanfu Hu,
  • Yong Sun,
  • Zhen Chen,
  • Yonglin Shi,
  • Jia Zong,
  • Adams Latif,
  • Linding Wang,
  • Li Yu,
  • Xue-Jie Yu,
  • Yan Liu,
  • Bo-Yu Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2411.170264
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 11
pp. 2107 – 2109

Abstract

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We isolated Rickettsia japonica from a febrile patient in Lu’an City, China, in 2013. Subsequently, we found an R. japonica seroprevalence of 54.8% (494/902) in the rural population of Anhui Province and an R. japonica prevalence in Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks of 0.5% (5/935). R. japonica and its tick vector exist in China.

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