Possible Case of Novel Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis in Traveler Returning to Japan from India
- Ichiro Takajo
- Tsuyoshi Sekizuka
- Hiromi Fujita
- Ayako Kawano
- Takeshi Kawaguchi
- Motohiro Matsuda
- Kazuyoshi Kubo
- Shunichi Miyauchi
- Kunihiko Umekita
- Yasuhiro Nagatomo
- Makoto Kuroda
- Tomohiko Takasaki
- Akihiko Okayama
- Shuji Ando
Publication date
June 2016
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Journal
Emerging Infectious DiseasesAbstract
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 rickettsial agent and performed a full-genome analysis