TY - JOUR AU - Takajo, Ichiro AU - Kurosawa, Masahiro AU - Sakata, Akiko AU - Fujita, Hiromi AU - Sakai, Katsurou AU - Sekine, Masao AU - Katsumi, Masanori AU - Saitou, Wakana AU - Yano, Yasuhiro AU - Takada, Nobuhiro AU - Takano, Ai AU - Kawabata, Hiroki AU - Hanaoka, Nozomu AU - Watanabe, Haruo AU - Kurane, Ichiro AU - Kishimoto, Toshio T1 - Human Rickettsia heilongjiangensis Infection, Japan T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2010 VL - 16 IS - 8 SP - 1306 SN - 1080-6059 AB - 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. KW - vector-borne infections KW - Rickettsia heilongjiangensis KW - Rickettsia japonica KW - Haemaphysalis concinna KW - ticks KW - spotted fever group rickettsiae KW - bacteria KW - Japan KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1608.100049 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/8/10-0049_article ER - End of Reference