ALLMedicine™ Human Monocytic Ehrlichiosis Center

Sep 14th, 2021 - Ehrlichioses and anaplasmosis have undergone dramatic increases in incidence, and the geographic ranges of their occurrence and vectors have also expanded. There is marked underreporting of these diseases owing to deficient physician awareness and...

Jun 22nd, 2021 - Background Ehrlichiosis is an infection of white blood cells that affects various mammals, including mice, cattle, dogs, deer, horses, sheep, goats, and humans. [1, 2] Female Lone Star tick, Amblyomma americanum, found in the southeastern and Mida...

Jun 22nd, 2021 - Background Ehrlichiosis is an infection of white blood cells that affects various mammals, including mice, cattle, dogs, deer, horses, sheep, goats, and humans. [1, 2] Female Lone Star tick, Amblyomma americanum, found in the southeastern and Mida...

Jun 3rd, 2021 - Iron is essential for survival and proliferation of Ehrlichia chaffeensis, an obligatory intracellular bacterium that causes an emerging zoonosis, human monocytic ehrlichiosis. However, how Ehrlichia acquires iron in the host cells is poorly under...

Apr 21st, 2021 - Ehrlichia chaffeensis causes human monocytic ehrlichiosis by replicating within phagosomes of monocytes/macrophages. A function disruption mutation within the pathogen's ECH_0660 gene, which encodes a phage head-to-tail connector protein, resulted...

Anaplasmosis In 1994, the causative agent of what was initially known as human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE) agent[37] and was later named human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA), Anaplasma phagocytophilum, was found to cause disease in humans. It...