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human granulocytic ehrlichiosis
(redirected from Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis)

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ehrlichiosis /ehr·lich·i·osis/ (ār-lik″e-o´sis) a febrile illness due to infection with bacteria of the genus Ehrlichia.
human granulocytic ehrlichiosis  a sometimes fatal human ehrlichiosis caused by an Ehrlichia equi –like species, characterized by flulike symptoms and involving predominantly neutrophils.
human monocytic ehrlichiosis  a sometimes fatal human ehrlichiosis caused by Ehrlichia chaffeensis, characterized by flulike symptoms and involving predominantly fixed tissue mononuclear phagocytes.

human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE).
human granulocytic ehrlichiosis
Infectious diseases Infection by Ehrlichia chaffeensis, a rickettsia-like organism genetically similar to E phagocytophila and E equi, transmitted by the Lyme disease tick, which may be associated with Lyme disease Clinical High fever, chills, sweating, myalgia, nausea and vomiting, headache, shaking chills, coughing, severe pain–like being 'hit by a bus,' followed by septic state Management Doxycycline. Cf Human monocytic ehrlichiosis.


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The etiologic agent of human granulocytic anaplasmosis, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, has also been found in I.
Anaplasma phagocytophilum is an obligate intracellular bacterium and the etiologic agent of human granulocytic anaplasmosis (formerly known as human granulocytic ehrlichiosis).
nbsp;phagocytophilum (formerly Ehrlichia phagocytophila), a tick-transmitted pathogen that infects several animal species, including humans (involved as accidental "dead-end" hosts), is the causative agent of human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA).
 
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