Japanese Spotted Fever, South Korea
نویسندگان
چکیده
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.
منابع مشابه
Spotted Fever Group and Typhus Group Rickettsioses in Humans, South Korea
The presence of the nucleic acid of the spotted fever group (SPG) and typhus group (TG) rickettsiae was investigated in 200 serum specimens seropositive for SFG rickettsiae by multiplex-nested polymerase chain reaction with primers derived from the rickettsial outer membrane protein B gene. The DNA of SFG, TG, or both rickettsiae was amplified in the 24 serum specimens, and sequence analysis sh...
متن کاملFirst serologic evidence of human spotted fever group rickettsiosis in Korea.
To investigate the prevalence of spotted fever group rickettsioses in Korea, a serosurvey of Japanese spotted fever rickettsiosis in patients with acute febrile illness was conducted with an indirect immunofluorescence assay. Overall, 19.88% of the patients were found to have polyvalent antibody against Rickettsia japonica. This study is the first documentation of spotted fever group rickettsio...
متن کاملEpidemiological study of Japanese spotted fever and tsutsugamushi disease in Shimane Prefecture, Japan.
Japanese spotted fever and tsutugamushi disease are tickborne infections that persist in Shimane Prefecture. Their respective causative agents are Rickettsia japonica and Orientia tsutsugamushi. We report here their outbreak characteristics. Since the first report in 1987 (1), Japanese spotted fever has been reported every year, totaling 80 cases at the end of 2005 (Fig. 1). Among 80 cases, it ...
متن کاملThe first fatal case of Japanese spotted fever confirmed by serological and microbiological tests in Awaji Island, Japan.
Japanese spotted fever is an important rickettsial disease in Japan (1). Japanese spotted fever was first reported by Mahara et al. (2,3) in 1984 in Anan City, Tokushima Prefecture , Japan. Since then, cases of Japanese spotted fever have been reported in many regions of the country. Yuzuruha Mountain in Awaji Island (Figure 1) is one of the areas heavily contaminated with Rickettsia japonica, ...
متن کاملSegniliparus rugosus Infection, Australia
R. japonica is the specifi c pathogen of Japanese spotted fever, which has been found mainly in southwestern Japan (5). The present strain, closely related to R. japonica, is likely to have been isolated from H. hystricis in Thailand because R. japonica frequently has been isolated, or detected by PCR, from the same tick species in Japan (6). Such tick species–specifi city of SFGR should be con...
متن کامل