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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Published inEmerging infectious diseases Vol. 12; no. 7; pp. 1122 - 1124
Main Authors Chung, Moon-Hyun, Lee, Seung-Hyun, Kim, Mi-Jeong, Lee, Jung-Hee, Kim, Eun-Sil, Lee, Jin-Soo, Kim, Mee-Kyung, Park, Mi-Yeoun, Kang, Jae-Seung
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.07.2006
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Subjects
Aged
Diagnosis
Dispatch
Humans
isolation
Japanese spotted fever
Korea
Korea - epidemiology
Male
Phylogeny
Rickettsia
Rickettsia - genetics
Rickettsia - isolation & purification
Rickettsia Infections - diagnosis
Rickettsia Infections - epidemiology
Rickettsia Infections - microbiology
Rickettsia Infections - pathology
Rickettsia japonica
South Korea
Korea
South Korea
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Summary: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 genes.
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ISSN:1080-6040
1080-6059
DOI:10.3201/eid1207.051372