Japanese Spotted Fever, South Korea

• DOI: 10.3201/eid1207.051372
• Publication Date: 2011-12-14T20:08:05Z
• Authors: Moon-Hyun Chung; Seung-Hyun Lee; Mi-Jeong Kim; Jung-Hee Lee; Eun-Sil Kim; Jin-Soo Lee; Mee-Kyung Kim; Mi-Yeoun Park; Jae-Seung Kang
• Keywords: Rickettsiaceae

Abstract We describe the first case of Japanese spotted fever and isolate group rickettsia from a patient in South Korea. The isolated was identified as Rickettsia japonica by analysis nucleotide sequences 16S rRNA, gltA, ompA, ompB, sca4 genes.