title: Human Rickettsia heilongjiangensis infection, Japan.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan. shuando@nih.go.jp
authors.forename: Shuji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ando
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kurosawa
authors.forename: Akiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sakata
authors.forename: Hiromi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fujita
authors.forename: Katsurou
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sakai
authors.forename: Masao
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sekine
authors.forename: Masanori
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Katsumi
authors.forename: Wakana
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Saitou
authors.forename: Yasuhiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yano
authors.forename: Nobuhiro
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Takada
authors.forename: Ai
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Takano
authors.forename: Hiroki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kawabata
authors.forename: Nozomu
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hanaoka
authors.forename: Haruo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Ichiro
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kurane
authors.forename: Toshio
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kishimoto
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D002950:Citrate (si)-Synthase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000382:microbiology*; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012281:Rickettsia / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012282:Rickettsia Infections / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000635:transmission; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013987:Ticks / Q000382:microbiology*
chemical_list: D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; C078167:OMPA outer membrane proteins; D002950:Citrate (si)-Synthase