| [a case report of spotted fever group rickettsiosis first encountered in shimane prefecture, japan]. | rickettsial infections of a spotted fever group have recently been experience in japan. although there have been 50 cases reported by this time, they were exclusively distributed in the areas along the pacific coast. we report in this paper the first case of spotted fever group rickettsiosis in shimane prefecture, an area faced to the japan sea. a 57 year-old man with high fever, general fatigue and rash was admitted to the hospital of shimane medical university at the end of september 1987, who ... | 1990 | 2335750 |
| [serosurvey for spotted fever group rickettsial infection in vertebrates in shimane prefecture]. | we carried out a survey for the prevalence of antibodies to the spotted fever group (sfg) rickettsia in vertebrates such as dogs, cattle, deer, and mice in shimane prefecture. rickettsia japonica was employed as antigen in indirect immunofluorescence (if) tests. the experiment for natural infections using decoy animals was performed in the field of the endemic area. 1. among 115 street dogs, 18.3% possessed the antibodies against sfg rickettsia, while all of the 8 hunting dogs had the antibodies ... | 1995 | 7602185 |
| molecular survey of babesia microti, ehrlichia species and candidatus neoehrlichia mikurensis in wild rodents from shimane prefecture, japan. | a significant number of patients are diagnosed with "fevers of unknown origin" (fuo) in shimane prefecture in japan where tick-borne diseases are endemic. we conducted molecular surveys for babesia microti, ehrlichia species, and candidatus neoehrlichia mikurensis in 62 fuo cases and 62 wild rodents from shimane prefecture, japan. pcr using primers specific for the babesia 18s small-subunit rrna (rdna) gene and anaplasmataceae groesl amplified products from 45% (28/62) and 25.8% (16/62) of captu ... | 2007 | 17446675 |
| high incidence of rickettsiosis correlated to prevalence of rickettsia japonica among haemaphysalis longicornis tick. | endemic spotted fever group rickettsiosis was reported in shimane prefecture, japan. from an analysis of 14 clinical cases found in the endemic area, the infectious agent of spotted fever group rickettsiosis was identified as rickettsia japonica. in this study, we also found that rickettsia japonica was highly infected with the vector tick, haemaphysalis longicornis, in the endemic area. these findings suggest that the high incidence of rickettsiosis in shimane prefecture can be explained by the ... | 2010 | 21139348 |