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Important Clinical Features of Japanese Spotted Fever

Japanese spotted fever (JSF) is a zoonosis transmitted by ticks carrying the pathogen Rickettsia japonica. The classic triad of JSF symptoms is high fever, erythema, and tick bite eschar. About 200 people in Japan develop the disease every year. Japanese spotted fever is also a potentially fatal dis...

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Autores principales: Noguchi, Masamitsu, Oshita, Shizuka, Yamazoe, Naohisa, Miyazaki, Mitsukazu, Takemura, Yousuke C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6090369/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29968555
http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.17-0576