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Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 44(1), 2008, pp. 164-167
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Detection of Rickettsia helvetica DNA from Peripheral Blood of Sika Deer (Cervus nippon yesoensis) in Japan

 Hisashi Inokuma1,8, Nobutaka Seino1, Masatsugu Suzuki2,7, Koichi Kaji3, Hiroshi Takahashi4, Hiromasa Igota5 and Satoshi Inoue6

1 Department of Veterinary Clinical Science, Obihiro University of Veterinary Medicine & Agriculture, Obihiro 080-8555, Japan;
2 Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0818, Japan;
3 Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo 183-8509, Japan;
4 Kansai Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Kyoto 612-0855, Japan;
5 Nishi-Okoppe Wildlife Association, Nishi-Okoppe 098-1422, Japan;
6 Department of Veterinary Science, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo 162-0121, Japan
8 Corresponding author (email: inokuma{at}obihiro.ac.jp)

ABSTRACT:   Partial nucleotide sequences of the citrate synthase and 17-kDa genes of Rickettsia helvetica were detected from peripheral blood samples of Sika deer (Cervus nippon yesoensis) in Hokkaido, Japan. Results suggest the presence of a rickettsiemia associated with R. helvetica. This is the first evidence of R. helvetica infection in Sika deer and indicates that this species may represent a potential reservoir host of R. helvetica in Japan.
  Key words:  Cervus nippon yesoensis, Japan, reservoir, Rickettsia helvetica, Sika deer.

7 Current address: Faculty of Applied Biological Sciences, Gifu University 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu 501-1193, Japan;




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