| experimental infection of lambs with an equine granulocytic ehrlichia species resembling the agent that causes human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (hge). | five lambs were inoculated with a granulocytic ehrlichia species originally isolated from a swedish horse with granulocytic ehrlichiosis (ege). the 16s rrna gene sequence of the swedish ehrlichia sp. causing ege was identical to the sequence of the agent causing human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (hge). after the inoculation, infected neutrophils and a low serologic response were seen in all lambs, but no clinical symptoms were observed. in one lamb 17% of the neutrophils were infected without a co ... | 1998 | 9926463 |