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- Title
Japanese spotted fever, South Korea.
- 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; 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
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
SOUTH Korea; ROCKY Mountain spotted fever tick; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIAL diseases; PATIENTS
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006, Vol 12, Issue 7, p1122
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.3201/eid1207.051372