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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2019

Rickettsia japonica Infection after Land Leech Bite, Japan.

Eiichiro Sando, Motoi Suzuki, Mitsuya Katayama, Masakatsu Taira, Hiromi Fujita, Koya Ariyoshi

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Land Leech Bite AssociatedBalkan medical journal · 2026
    Article
  2. Acute Lymphangitis after a Land Leech Bite.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2021
    Article
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Eiichiro Sando
Motoi Suzuki
Mitsuya Katayama
Masakatsu Taira
Hiromi Fujita
Koya Ariyoshi

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report a case of Rickettsia japonica infection in an 81-year-old man in central Japan. The patient had fever, rash, and an eschar but no evidence of a tick bite. His symptoms began 8 days after a land leech bite. The land leech is a potential vector of R. japonica.

Indexed as

Bites and StingsRickettsiaAged, 80 and overAnimalsBiomarkersExanthemaFluorescent Antibody TechniqueHumansJapanLeechesMalePolymerase Chain ReactionRickettsia InfectionsSymptom AssessmentBiomarkersbacteriaJapanJapanese spotted feverleechOrientia tsutsugamushiRickettsiaRickettsia japonicascrub typhuszoonoses

Identifiers

PMID31107234
PMCPMC6537741

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