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Volume 27, Number 4—April 2021
Research Letter

Co-infection with Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus and Rickettsia japonica after Tick Bite, Japan

Tatsuya FujikawaComments to Author , Tomoki Yoshikawa, Takeshi Kurosu, Masayuki Shimojima, Masayuki Saijo, and Kyoko Yokota
Author affiliations: Mitoyo General Hospital, Kanonji, Japan (T. Fujikawa); National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan (T. Yoshikawa, T. Kurosu, M. Shimojima, M. Saijo); Kagawa Prefectural Central Hospital, Takamatsu, Japan (K. Yokota)

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Eschar at site of tick bite surrounded by exanthema on lower right back of patient with severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome and positive Rickettsia japonica DNA in eschar, Japan.

Figure. Eschar at site of tick bite surrounded by exanthema on lower right back of patient with severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome and positive Rickettsia japonica DNA in eschar, Japan.

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