Ehrlichia in dogs is a bacterial disease that causes fever, bleeding, poor appetite, and lethargy. It's a disease dogs get from ticks. Though this disease happens everywhere, it is more common in ...

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 ...

When a patient presents with signs and symptoms suspicious for a tick-borne illness, medical providers in central North Carolina regularly test for Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, but ...

Human ehrlichiosis is an acute febrile tick-borne disease that is caused by various species belonging to the genera Ehrlichia and Anaplasma. The infection is known to cause protracted fever and ...

Ehrlichiosis is a disease caused by several Gram-negative obligate intracellular bacteria that are transmitted by a tick vector. The frequency of ehrlichiosis is increasing, which is ascribed to the ...

A total of 23 patients with symptoms and a clinical history consistent with a rickettsial infection who presented to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Davidson Veterans' Association Medical Center ...

A new tick-borne bacterium infecting humans with ehrlichiosis has been discovered in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Experts say the new species from the Ehrlichia genus can cause a feverish illness in ...

Nebraska resident Robin Pollak is recovering after a three-week battle with Ehrlichia, a rare tick-borne illness in the state. Her case comes as CDC data shows emergency room visits for tick bites are ...

When patients present to providers in North Carolina for a possible tick bite, clinicians are not testing them for Ehrlichia, a tick-borne illness that occurs more frequently than Lyme disease and as ...

Doctors at Mayo Clinic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the University of Minnesota, the University of Wisconsin, and state and local health departments say the new species from ...