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- Title
Septicemia caused by tick-borne bacterial pathogen Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis.
- Authors
Fehr, Jan S; Bloemberg, Guido V; Ritter, Claudia; Hombach, Michael; Lüscher, Thomas F; Weber, Rainer; Keller, Peter M
- Abstract
We have repeatedly detected Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis, a bacterium first described in Rattus norvegicus rats and Ixodes ovatus ticks in Japan in 2004 in the blood of a 61-year-old man with signs of septicemia by 16S rRNA and groEL gene PCR. After 6 weeks of therapy with doxycycline and rifampin, the patient recovered.
- Publication
Emerging infectious diseases, 2010, Vol 16, Issue 7, p1127
- ISSN
1080-6059
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.3201/eid1607.091907