Concomitant Tickborne Encephalitis and Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2005 Mar 11

PMID 15757574

Citations 8

Authors

Stanka Lotric-Furlan

Miroslav Petrovec

Tatjana Avsic-Zupanc

Franc Strle

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Abstract

We report a patient with febrile illness and epidemiologic and clinical findings consistent with human granulocytic ehrlichiosis and tickborne encephalitis, in whom infection with Anaplasma phagocytophilum was demonstrated by polymerase chain reaction and seroconversion. Tickborne encephalitis virus infection was established by serum immunoglobulin (Ig) M and IgG antibodies.

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