%0 Journal Article %A Uchida, Takahiro %A Uchiyama, Tsuneo %A Kumano, Keiko %A Walker, David H. %T Rickettsia japonica sp. nov., the Etiological Agent of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis in Japan %D 1992 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 42 %N 2 %P 303-305 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-42-2-303 %I Microbiology Society, %X 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. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-42-2-303