Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jul 2006)

Japanese Spotted Fever, South Korea

  • Moon-Hyun Chung,
  • Seung-Hyun Lee,
  • Mi-Jeong Kim,
  • Jung-Hee Lee,
  • Eun-Sil Kim,
  • Jin-Soo Lee,
  • Mee-Kyung Kim,
  • Mi-Yeoun Park,
  • Jae-Seung Kang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1207.051372
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 7
pp. 1122 – 1124

Abstract

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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.

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