Publications

detection of rickettsial dna in ixodid ticks recovered from dogs and cats in japan.	dna from ticks recovered from 1137 dogs and 133 cats from all over japan were examined for rickettsia infection by citrate synthase gene (glta)-based pcr and partial nucleotide sequencing. a total of 91 dog tick samples and 18 cat tick samples showed a single band of the appropriate size in the nested pcr. sequence analysis was successfully performed on 102 samples. dna of rickettsia japonica or closely related rickettsia spp. strains were detected from 38 ticks in 16 prefectures mainly in weste ...	2005	16397379
severe japanese spotted fever successfully treated with fluoroquinolone.	a 77 years old woman who had a bite with eschar on her left arm, was admitted to emergency ward in our hospital, because of high fever, severe malaise, skin eruption, and consciousness disturbance beginning 5 days previously. she was diagnosed as japanese spotted fever by seropositive of rickettsia japonica (r. japonica) antibody, and successfully treated with fluoroquinolone, after minocycline hydrochloride had been proven ineffective. r. japonica-specific dna was detected by pcr from the tick: ...	2006	17170509