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Concomitant tickborne encephalitis and human granulocytic ehrlichiosis
Stanka Lotric-Furlan1, Miroslav Petrovec, Tatjana Avsic-Zupanc
1Department of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Japljeva 2, 1525 Ljubljana, Slovenia. stanka.lotic-furlan@mf.uni-lj.si
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|March 11, 2005
Abstract:
We report a patient with febrile illness and epidemiologic and clinical findings consistent with human granulocytic ehrlichiosis and tickborne encephalitis, in whom infection with Anaplasma phagocytophilum was demonstrated by polymerase chain reaction and seroconversion. Tickborne encephalitis virus infection was established by serum immunoglobulin (Ig) M and IgG antibodies.