| geographic, clinical, serologic, and molecular evidence of granulocytic ehrlichiosis, a likely zoonotic disease, in minnesota and wisconsin dogs. | seventeen minnesota and wisconsin dogs with granulocytic ehrlichosis were studied. the diagnoses were made by finding ehrlichia morulae in peripheral blood neutrophils. eight dogs were studied retrospectively, and nine dogs were studied prospectively. the medical records of all dogs were reviewed. eighty-eight percent of the dogs were purebred and 76% were spayed females. the median age was 8 years. sixty-five percent of the cases were diagnosed in october and november. fever and lethargy were t ... | 1996 | 8748270 |
| coexistence of antibodies to tick-borne pathogens of babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, and lyme borreliosis in human sera. | serum specimens from persons with or without lyme borreliosis were analyzed by indirect fluorescent antibody staining methods for total immunoglobulins to babesia microti, ehrlichia chaffeensis (arkansas strain), and ehrlichia equi (mrk strain). there was serologic evidence of human exposure to multiple tick-borne agents in 15 (6.6%) of 227 serum samples obtained in connecticut and minnesota. of these, 10 serum samples were from connecticut patients who had erythema migrans and antibodies to bor ... | 1995 | 8576376 |
| human granulocytic ehrlichiosis in the upper midwest united states. a new species emerging? | to characterize the clinical presentation and course, laboratory findings, and treatment outcome of 12 patients with human granulocytic ehrlichiosis. | 1994 | 8022040 |
| emergence of a new pathogenic ehrlichia species, wisconsin and minnesota, 2009. | ehrlichiosis is a clinically important, emerging zoonosis. only ehrlichia chaffeensis and e. ewingii have been thought to cause ehrlichiosis in humans in the united states. patients with suspected ehrlichiosis routinely undergo testing to ensure proper diagnosis and to ascertain the cause. | 2011 | 21812671 |