Journal article
Septicemia caused by tick-borne bacterial pathogen Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis.
- Fehr JS University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Bloemberg GV
- Ritter C
- Hombach M
- Lüscher TF
- Weber R
- Keller PM
- 2010-07-01
Published in:
- Emerging infectious diseases. - 2010
English
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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- English
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- gold
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- DOI 10.3201/eid1607.091907
- PMID 20587186
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/179841
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