Nagoya City Public Health Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2009 Dec;15(12):1991-3. doi: 10.3201/eid1512.081667.
To determine whether Ehrlichia chaffeensis exists in Japan, we used PCR to examine blood from sika deer in Nara, Japan. Of 117 deer, 36 (31%) were infected with E. chaffeensis. The E. chaffeensis 16S rRNA base and GroEL amino acid sequences from Japan were most closely related to those of E. chaffeensis Arkansas.
为了确定日本是否存在埃立克体属 chaffeensis,我们使用 PCR 方法检测了日本奈良的梅花鹿血液样本。在 117 只鹿中,有 36 只(31%)感染了埃立克体属 chaffeensis。来自日本的埃立克体属 chaffeensis 16S rRNA 碱基和 GroEL 氨基酸序列与来自阿肯色州的埃立克体属 chaffeensis 最为接近。