Japanese Spotted Fever in Eastern China, 2013

Jiabin Li, Wen Hu, Ting Wu, Hongbin Li, Wanfu Hu, Yong Sun, Zhen Chen, Yonglin Shi, Jia Zong, Latif Adams,

Emerging infectious diseases · 2018 · 51 citations · 7 references

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We isolated Rickettsia japonica from a febrile patient in Lu'an City, China, in 2013. Subsequently, we found an R. japonica seroprevalence of 54.8% (494/902) in the rural population of Anhui Province and an R. japonica prevalence in Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks of 0.5% (5/935). R. japonica and its tick vector exist in China.

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