posted on 2013-02-23, 12:19authored byLijuan Zhang, Guiqiang Wang, Qinghui Liu, Chuangfu Chen, Jun Li, Bo Long, Hong Yu, Zhilun Zhang, Jing He, Zhangyi Qu, Jiguang Yu, Yuanni Liu, Tuo Dong, Na Yao, Yong Wang, Xueqin Cheng, Jianguo Xu
The Laizhou Bay, Shandong Province (B:areas enclosed by the black circle), where the 2 human isolates (LZ-HGA-agent-3 and LZ-HGA-agent-4) and the tick isolate (LZ- HGA-agent-T1) isolated. The H. longicornis collected in the Laizhou Bay (D and E). Images of HGA patients with eschars from the Laizhou Bay, Shandong Province (F and G).