Possible Case of Novel Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis in Traveler Returning to Japan from India

A 60-year-old woman experienced fever, headache, rash, and altered vision after returning to Japan from India. Testing detected elevated antibody titers to spotted fever group rickettsia; PCR on blood yielded positive results for the rickettsial outer membrane protein A gene. We isolated a unique ri...

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Autores principales: Takajo, Ichiro, Sekizuka, Tsuyoshi, Fujita, Hiromi, Kawano, Ayako, Kawaguchi, Takeshi, Matsuda, Motohiro, Kubo, Kazuyoshi, Miyauchi, Shunichi, Umekita, Kunihiko, Nagatomo, Yasuhiro, Kuroda, Makoto, Takasaki, Tomohiko, Okayama, Akihiko, Ando, Shuji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2016
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4880103/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27192498
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2206.151985

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4880103/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27192498
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2206.151985

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