Ehrlichia symptoms can be immediate (acute) or long-term (chronic). Acute symptoms occur 7 to 21 days after the tick bite and are therefore common in summer, when ticks are active.

Mizzou scientist discovers how a deadly bacterium spread by the lone star tick survives, bringing hope for new treatments.

A joint study found that three counties within the Choctaw Nation have disease causing pathogens found in ticks.

Ehrlichiosis is an infection spread by ticks that carry the ehrlichia bacterium. There are many species of tick in the U.S., but the lone star tick, found mainly in the central and southeastern ...

However, the recent case of a tick carrying Ehrlichia chaffeensis, the bacteria behind HME, in Connecticut involved the longhorned tick, a tick species native to eastern Asia. With the rise of ...

These diseases are caused by bacteria belonging to the 'Ehrlichia' family. Several forms of Human Ehrlichioses have been identified, including Human Monocytic Ehrlichiosis, Sennetsu Fever, and ...

Ehrlichia chaffeensis is an obligate intracellular bacterium responsible for human monocytic ehrlichiosis, a potentially severe tick-borne disease. As a pathogen that exclusively replicates within ...

Ehrlichia Infections, North Carolina, USA, 2016. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018; 24 (11) DOI: 10.3201/eid2411.180496 ...

As with Ehrlichia chaffeensis, different serosurveillence studies evince that asymptomatic disease is quite common. The disease is primarily caused by Anaplasma phagocytophilum.

Ehrlichia is an illness caused by the Lone Star Tick, which is found throughout the mid-Atlantic United States. Symptoms typically include fever, headache and muscle aches.

Among patients with Ehrlichia IgG, Rickettsia IgG or alpha-gal IgE following a tick bite, only those with heightened levels of alpha-gal IgE demonstrated musculoskeletal symptoms, specifically ...