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Volume 22, Number 6—June 2016
Dispatch

Possible Case of Novel Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis in Traveler Returning to Japan from India

Ichiro Takajo1Comments to Author , Tsuyoshi Sekizuka, Hiromi Fujita, Ayako Kawano, Takeshi Kawaguchi, Motohiro Matsuda, Kazuyoshi Kubo, Shunichi Miyauchi, Kunihiko Umekita, Yasuhiro Nagatomo, Makoto Kuroda, Tomohiko Takasaki, Akihiko Okayama, and Shuji Ando1Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan (I. Takajo, A. Kawano, T. Kawaguchi, M. Matsuda, K. Kubo, S. Miyauchi, K. Umekita, Y. Nagatomo, A. Okayama); National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan (T. Sekizuka, M. Kuroda, T. Takasaki, S. Ando); Mahara Institute of Medical Acarology, Tokushima, Japan (H. Fujita)

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Table

IgG titers to rickettsiae detected by indirect immunofluorescence assay conducted on a serum sample from a 60-year-old female traveler who had returned to Japan from India, January 2011*

Species
 Day 13
 Day 19
 Day 40
Rickettsia japonica (YH) – 1:640 1:640
R. conorii (Malish7) – 1:2,560 1:5,120
R. typhi (Wilmington) – 1:40 1:160
R. prowazekii (Brainl) – 1:40 1:80
Orientia tsutsugamushi (Karp) – – –
O. tsutsugamushi (Gilliam) – – –

*–, negative.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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