Japanese Spotted Fever, South Korea

Japanese Spotted Fever, South Korea

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 g...

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Main Authors: 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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2006-07-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Rickettsia japonica
Japanese spotted fever
isolation
Korea
South Korea
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/7/05-1372_article

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