TY - JOUR AU - Chung, Moon-Hyun AU - Lee, Seung-Hyun AU - Kim, Mi-Jeong AU - Lee, Jung-Hee AU - Kim, Eun-Sil AU - Lee, Jin-Soo AU - Kim, Mee-Kyung AU - Park, Mi-Yeoun AU - Kang, Jae-Seung T1 - Japanese Spotted Fever, South Korea T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2006 VL - 12 IS - 7 SP - 1122 SN - 1080-6059 AB - 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. KW - Rickettsia japonica KW - Japanese spotted fever KW - isolation KW - Korea KW - South Korea DO - 10.3201/eid1207.051372 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/7/05-1372_article ER - End of Reference