Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jun 2016)

Possible Case of Novel Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis in Traveler Returning to Japan from India

  • Ichiro Takajo,
  • Tsuyoshi Sekizuka,
  • Hiromi Fujita,
  • Ayako Kawano,
  • Takeshi Kawaguchi,
  • Motohiro Matsuda,
  • Kazuyoshi Kubo,
  • Shunichi Miyauchi,
  • Kunihiko Umekita,
  • Yasuhiro Nagatomo,
  • Makoto Kuroda,
  • Tomohiko Takasaki,
  • Akihiko Okayama,
  • Shuji Ando

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2206.151985
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 6
pp. 1079 – 1082

Abstract

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A 60-year-old woman experienced fever, headache, rash, and altered vision after returning to Japan from India. Testing detected elevated antibody titers to spotted fever group rickettsia; PCR on blood yielded positive results for the rickettsial outer membrane protein A gene. We isolated a unique rickettsial agent and performed a full-genome analysis.

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