Human Rickettsia heilongjiangensis infection, Japan.
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.
Ando
Shuji
S
National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan. shuando@nih.go.jp
Kurosawa
Masahiro
M
Sakata
Akiko
A
Fujita
Hiromi
H
Sakai
Katsurou
K
Sekine
Masao
M
Katsumi
Masanori
M
Saitou
Wakana
W
Yano
Yasuhiro
Y
Takada
Nobuhiro
N
Takano
Ai
A
Kawabata
Hiroki
H
Hanaoka
Nozomu
N
Watanabe
Haruo
H
Kurane
Ichiro
I
Kishimoto
Toshio
T
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*
D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; C078167:OMPA outer membrane proteins; D002950:Citrate (si)-Synthase