Article
Isolation and characterization of a new strain of Ehrlichia chaffeensis from a patient with nearly fatal monocytic ehrlichiosis.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jul 1995
Dumler J S, Chen S M, Asanovich K, Trigiani E, Popov V L, Walker D H
Abstract excerpt
Ehrlichia chaffeensis is the causative agent of human monocytic ehrlichiosis, a disease that ranges in severity from asymptomatic infection to death. Only one isolate of E. chaffeensis has been made, the Arkansas strain, upon which all characterizations of the agent of human monocytic ehrlichiosi...
Topics
- Aged
- Animals
- Cells, Cultured
- Dogs
- Ehrlichia chaffeensis
- Ehrlichiosis
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Leukocytosis
- Male
- Microscopy, Electron
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Monocytes
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Species Specificity