| first isolation of a rickettsia closely related to japanese spotted fever pathogen from a tick in japan. | in may 1993, we collected unfed ticks in anan, tokushima prefecture, shikoku district, japan, a highly endemic area of japanese spotted fever (jsf). we isolated jsf rickettsiae from these ticks by inoculating tick-emulsions into l-929 cells. of the four genera and seven species of ticks examined, only one larva of dermacentor taiwanensis sugimoto yielded a rickettsial isolate. the isolate (dt-1 strain) was found to belong to the serotype common to the causative agent of jsf. this was based on it ... | 1994 | 8189407 |
| an incident involving blood sucking by a tick in a suburb in japan. | we encountered a patient whose blood was sucked by haemaphysalis longicornis in the suburb of a business city in tokushima prefecture in japan. the tick, which had been attached to the lower limb of the patient for one week, measured 10 mm in length. there were no notable objective or subjective findings after the complete extirpation of the tick. the area had not been known in recent history to be a habitat of ticks, and, thus, this case is of importance in terms of predicting future trends of ... | 2000 | 11019494 |