Human Rickettsia heilongjiangensis infection, Japan

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1306-1308

  Ando, Shuji ^a   Kurosawa, Masahiro ^b   Sakata, Akiko ^a   Fujita, Hiromi ^c   Sakai, Katsurou ^d   Sekine, Masao ^d   Katsumi, Masanori ^d   Saitou, Wakana ^b   Yano, Yasuhiro ^e   Takada, Nobuhiro ^e   Takano, Ai ^a,f   Kawabata, Hiroki ^a,f   Hanaoka, Nozomu ^a   Watanabe, Haruo ^a,f   Kurane, Ichiro ^a   Kishimoto, Toshio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b SENDAI CITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c Ohara General Hospital   (Japan)

^d Sendai City Institute of Public Health   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^f GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; CITRATE SYNTHASE; MINOCYCLINE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; FEVER; GENE SEQUENCE; HAEMAPHYSALIS CONCINNA; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALAISE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RASH; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA HEILONGJIANGENSIS; RICKETTSIA HEILONGJIANGENSIS INFECTION; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN BIOPSY; TICK; TICK BITE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; JAPAN; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TICKS;

EID: 77956054160     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1608.100049     Document Type: Article

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