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. 2006 Oct:1078:110-7.
doi: 10.1196/annals.1374.016.

Human infection with Ehrlichia canis accompanied by clinical signs in Venezuela

Miriam Perez  1 , Mairim Bodor, Chunbin Zhang, Qingming Xiong, Yasuko Rikihisa
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Human infection with Ehrlichia canis accompanied by clinical signs in Venezuela

Miriam Perez et al. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2006 Oct.

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  • Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2010 Nov;1212(1):130. Xiong, Qingmin [corrected to Xiong, Qingming]

Abstract

A total of 20 human patients with clinical signs compatible with human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME), who were admitted to the emergency clinic in Lara State, Venezuela, were studied. Thirty percent (6/20) patients were positive for Ehrlichia canis 16S rRNA on gene-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Compared with the U.S. strains, 16S rRNA gene sequences from all six patients had the same base mutation as the sequence of the E. canis Venezuelan human Ehrlichia (VHE) strain previously isolated from an asymptomatic human. This study is the first report of E. canis infection of human patients with clinical signs of HME.

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