Isolatian of spotted fever Group Rickettsia from Ninhua County of Fujian Province

A strain of Rickettsia sibirica was isolated from Haemaphysalis yeni in Ninhua County,Fu-jian Province in 1995.The result of immunofluorescence assay showed that this strain was preliminary identfied as Rickettsia sibirica.It was the first time to isolate Rickettsia sibirica in the souther part of China.This demonstrated that Rickettsia sibirica was distributed widely,not only in the northern China,but also in the southern part of China.