| ehrlichia chaffeensis in archived tissues of a white-tailed deer. | white-tailed deer (odocoileus virginianus) play an integral role in the natural history of ehrlichia chaffeensis, the causative agent of human monocytic ehrlichiosis (hme). paraffinized tissues from a white-tailed deer submitted as a diagnostic case to the southeastern cooperative wildlife disease study (athens, georgia, usa) in october of 198.5 and originally described as infected with an unidentified rickettsial organisim were re-examined by specific nested polymerase chain reaction (pcr) for ... | 1999 | 10479099 |