| Literature DB >> 12801068 |
Jung-Hee Lee1, Hyo-Soon Park, Kwang-Don Jung, Won-Jong Jang, Seong-Eun Koh, Shin-Seok Kang, In-Yong Lee, Won-Ja Lee, Bum-Joon Kim, Yoon-Hoh Kook, Kyung-Hee Park, Seung-Hyun Lee.
Abstract
Seven Haemaphysalis ticks were found positive in PCR assay of gltA gene to detect the spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiae DNA from 100 ticks. The nucleotide sequence of 16S rRNA gene was determined from 5 ticks and compared to those of other Rickettsia strains. The nucleotide sequence from 4 ticks showed high homologies (99.7 to 100%) with that of R. japonica YH, and that from 1 tick (tick no. 48) was identical with that of R. rickettsii R, suggesting that SFG rickettsiae exists in Korea. This is the first documentation of SFG rickettsiae in Korea.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID： 12801068 DOI： 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2003.tb03399.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Microbiol Immunol ISSN： 0385-5600 Impact factor: 1.955