1. Japanese Spotted Fever in Eastern China, 2013
- Author
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Linding Wang, Wanfu Hu, Wen Hu, Yan Liu, Yong Sun, Adams Latif, Bo-Yu Liu, Ting Wu, Hongbin Li, Li Yu, Zhen Chen, Yonglin Shi, Xue Jie Yu, Jiabin Li, and Jia Zong
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Male ,Anhui Province ,Veterinary medicine ,Epidemiology ,urinalysis ,vector-borne infections ,lcsh:Medicine ,rash ,Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks ,Japonica ,spotted fever group Rickettsiae ,0302 clinical medicine ,Seroepidemiologic Studies ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Rickettsia ,Japanese Spotted Fever in Eastern China, 2013 ,bacteria ,Phylogeny ,fever ,seroprevalence ,Rickettsia japonica ,Eastern china ,tickborne infection ,17-kDa protein ,Middle Aged ,Tick vector ,Rash ,Infectious Diseases ,Japanese spotted fever ,medicine.symptom ,Haemaphysalis longicornis ,Microbiology (medical) ,China ,Ixodidae ,030231 tropical medicine ,Biology ,lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases ,03 medical and health sciences ,Research Letter ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,Seroprevalence ,lcsh:RC109-216 ,16S rRNA ,Tick Bites ,electron microscopy ,phylogenetic analysis ,Shandong Province ,lcsh:R ,blood chemistries ,Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,papular rash ,Arachnid Vectors - Abstract
We isolated Rickettsia japonica from a febrile patient in Lu’an City, China, in 2013. Subsequently, we found an R. japonica seroprevalence of 54.8% (494/902) in the rural population of Anhui Province and an R. japonica prevalence in Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks of 0.5% (5/935). R. japonica and its tick vector exist in China.
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- 2018