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Int J Syst Bacteriol 42 (1992), 303-305; DOI 10.1099/00207713-42-2-303
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Rickettsia japonica sp. nov., the Etiological Agent of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis in Japan

Takahiro Uchida1,*, Tsuneo Uchiyama1, Keiko Kumano1 and David H. Walker2

1Department of Virology, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima, Tokushima 770, Japan
2Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77550

* Corresponding author.

ABSTRACT

We propose the name Rickettsia japonica sp. nov. (with type strain YH [= ATCC VR-1363]) for a serologically specific species of spotted fever group rickettsiae that are pathogenic for humans (J. Infect. Dis. 159:1122-1126, 1989; J. Clin. Microbiol. 28:1177-1180, 1990). The biologic and genomic characteristics of the organism (G+C content, 31.2 ± 0.7 mol%) are essentially the same as those of other pathogenic spotted fever group rickettsiae, although the R. japonica isolates cause a persistent infection in Vero cells for many subcultures.




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