Human Case of Ehrlichia chaffeensis Infection, Taiwan

In 2018, an immunosuppressed woman in southern Taiwan had onset of fever, chills, myalgia, malaise, thrombocytopenia, lymphocytopenia, and elevated hepatic transaminases. Investigation revealed infection with Ehrlichia chaffeensis. This autochthonous case of human monocytotropic ehrlichiosis was con...

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Autores principales: Peng, Shih-Huan, Yang, Su-Lin, Ho, Yu-Ni, Chen, Hsiang-Fei, Shu, Pei-Yun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019
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Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6810210/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31625863
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2511.190665
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author Peng, Shih-Huan
Yang, Su-Lin
Ho, Yu-Ni
Chen, Hsiang-Fei
Shu, Pei-Yun
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description In 2018, an immunosuppressed woman in southern Taiwan had onset of fever, chills, myalgia, malaise, thrombocytopenia, lymphocytopenia, and elevated hepatic transaminases. Investigation revealed infection with Ehrlichia chaffeensis. This autochthonous case of human monocytotropic ehrlichiosis was confirmed by PCR, DNA sequencing, and seroconversion.
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spelling pubmed-68102102019-11-01 Human Case of Ehrlichia chaffeensis Infection, Taiwan Peng, Shih-Huan Yang, Su-Lin Ho, Yu-Ni Chen, Hsiang-Fei Shu, Pei-Yun Emerg Infect Dis Research Letter In 2018, an immunosuppressed woman in southern Taiwan had onset of fever, chills, myalgia, malaise, thrombocytopenia, lymphocytopenia, and elevated hepatic transaminases. Investigation revealed infection with Ehrlichia chaffeensis. This autochthonous case of human monocytotropic ehrlichiosis was confirmed by PCR, DNA sequencing, and seroconversion. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6810210/ /pubmed/31625863 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2511.190665 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
spellingShingle Research Letter
Peng, Shih-Huan
Yang, Su-Lin
Ho, Yu-Ni
Chen, Hsiang-Fei
Shu, Pei-Yun
Human Case of Ehrlichia chaffeensis Infection, Taiwan
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title_full Human Case of Ehrlichia chaffeensis Infection, Taiwan
title_fullStr Human Case of Ehrlichia chaffeensis Infection, Taiwan
title_full_unstemmed Human Case of Ehrlichia chaffeensis Infection, Taiwan
title_short Human Case of Ehrlichia chaffeensis Infection, Taiwan
title_sort human case of ehrlichia chaffeensis infection, taiwan
topic Research Letter
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6810210/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31625863
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2511.190665
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