Japanese Spotted Fever, South Korea

Abstract

We describe the first case of Japanese spotted fever and the first isolate of spotted fever group rickettsia from a patient in South Korea. The isolated rickettsia from the patient was identified as Rickettsia japonica by analysis of the nucleotide sequences of 16S rRNA, gltA, ompA, ompB, and sca4 genes.

Keywords

• Rickettsia japonica
• Japanese spotted fever
• isolation
• Korea
• South Korea