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Mateusz Markowicz1, Anna-Margarita Schötta1, Michiel Wijnveld1
1Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Kinderspitalgasse 15, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
|January 19, 2016
Abstract:
Human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA) is caused by Anaplasma phagocytophilum, an intracellular pathogen transmitted by hard ticks. We report a patient who had acquired the infection in Connecticut, USA, and was diagnosed in Vienna, Austria, using PCR methods. Imported HGA from the United States to Austria is a rare event.
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