Septicemia Caused by Tick-borne Bacterial Pathogen Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis

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 rifa...

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Autores principales: Fehr, Jan S., Bloemberg, Guido V., Ritter, Claudia, Hombach, Michael, Lüscher, Thomas F., Weber, Rainer, Keller, Peter M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2010
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3358111/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20587186
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1607.091907
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Sumario: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.

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