Japanese Spotted Fever, South Korea

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 g...

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Autores principales: Chung, Moon-Hyun, Lee, Seung-Hyun, Kim, Mi-Jeong, Lee, Jung-Hee, Kim, Eun-Sil, Lee, Jin-Soo, Kim, Mee-Kyung, Park, Mi-Yeoun, Kang, Jae-Seung
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2006
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3291047/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16836831
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1207.051372
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Sumario: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.

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