Emerging Infectious Diseases (Aug 2010)

Human Rickettsia heilongjiangensis Infection, Japan

  • Ichiro Takajo,
  • 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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1608.100049
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 8
pp. 1306 – 1308

Abstract

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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.

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