Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis in southern Germany: Increased seroprevalence in high-risk groups

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 3244-3247

  Fingerle, V ^a   Goodman, J L ^b   Johnson, R C ^c   Kurtti, T J ^c   Munderloh, U G ^c   Wilske, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GERMANY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IXODES RICINUS; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROPREVALENCE; WORKER;

ACARI; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; EHRLICHIA; IXODES PERSULCATUS; IXODES RICINUS;

EID: 0030699052     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.35.12.3244-3247.1997     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Anderson, B. E., J. E. Dawson, D. C. Jones, and K. H. Wilson. 1991. Ehrlichia chaffeensis, a new species associated with human ehrlichiosis. J. Clin. Microbiol. 29:2838-2842.
2. Anderson, J. F. 1989. Epizootiology of borrelia in Ixodes tick vectors and reservoir hosts. Rev. Infect. Dis. 11:1451-1459.
3. Bakken, J. S., J. S. Dumler, S.-M. Chen, M. R. Eckman, L. L. Van Etta, and D. H. Walker. 1994. Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis in the upper Midwest United States. JAMA 272:212-218.
4. Bakken, J. S., J. Krueth, C. Wilson-Nordskog, R. L. Tilden, K. Asanovich, and S. Dumler. 1996. Clinical and laboratory characteristics of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis. JAMA 275:199-205.
5. Barbour, A. G., W. Burgdorfer, S. F. Hayes, O. Peter, and A. Aeschlimann. 1983. Isolation of a cultivable spirochete from Ixodes ricinus ticks of Switzerland. Curr. Microbiol. 8:123-126.
6. Barlough, J. E., J. E. Madigan, E. DeRock, J. S. Dumler, and J. S. Bakken. 1995. Protection against Ehrlichia equi is conferred by prior infection with the human granulocytotropic ehrlichia (HGE agent). J. Clin. Microbiol. 33:3333-3334.
7. Brenner, D. J., S. P. O'Connor, H. H. Winkler, and A. G. Steigerwalt. 1993. Proposal to unify the genera Bartonella and Rochalimaea, with descriptions of Bartonella quintana comb. nov., Bartonella vinsonii comb. nov., Bartonella henselae comb. nov., and Bartonella elizabethae comb. nov., and to remove the family Bartonellaceae from the order Rickettsiales. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 43:777-786.
8. Brouqui, P., J. S. Dumler, R. Lienhard, M. Brossard, and D. Raoult. 1995. Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis in Europe. Lancet 346:782-783.
9. Buescher, G., R. Gandras, G. Apel, and K. T. Friedhoff. 1984. Der erste Fall von Ehrlichiose beim Pferd in Deutschland. Dtsch. Tieracrztl. Wochensehr. 91:408-409.
10. Chen, S.-M., J. S. Dumler, J. S. Bakken, and D. H. Walker. 1994. Identification of a granulocytotropic Ehrlichia species as the etiologic agent of human disease. J. Clin. Microbiol. 32:589-595.
11. Dumler, J. S., K. M. Asanovich, J. S. Bakken, P. Richter, R. Kimsev, and J. E. Madigan. 1995. Serologic cross-reactions among Ehrlichia equi, Ehrlichia phagocytophila, and human granulocytic ehrlichia. J. Clin. Microbiol. 33:1098-1103.
12. Gerhards, H., F. Offeney, and K. T. Friedhoff. 1987. Ehrlichia-Infektion beim Pferd. Pferdeheilkunde 6:283-291.
13. Goodman, J. L., C. Nelson, B. Vitale, J. E. Madigan, J. S. Dumler, T. J. Kurtti, and U. G. Munderloh. 1996. Direct cultivation of the causative agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis. N. Engl. J. Med. 334:209-215.
14. 13a. Johnson, R. C. Unpublished observations.
15. Keirans, J. E., J. H. Oliver, Jr., and G. R. Needham. 1992. The Ixodes ricinus/persulcatus complex defined, p. 302. In U. G. Munderloh and T. J. Kurtti (ed.), First International Conference on Tick-Borne Pathogens at the Host-Vector Interface: an agenda for research. Minnesota Extension Service, St. Paul, Minn.
16. Klein, M. B., C. M. Nelson, and J. L. Goodman. 1997. Antibiotic susceptibility of the newly cultivated agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis: promising activity of quinolones and rifamycins. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 41:76-79.
17. Magnarelli, L. A., K. C. Stafford III, T. N. Mather, M.-T. Yeh, K. D. Horn, and J. S. Dumler. 1995. Hemocytic rickettsia-like organisms in ticks: serologic reactivity with antisera to ehrlichiae and detection of DNA of agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis by PCR. J. Clin. Microbiol. 33:2710-2714.
18. Magnarelli, L. A., J. S. Dumler, J. F. Anderson, R. C. Johnson, and E. Fikrig. 1995. Coexistence of antibodies to tick-borne pathogens of babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, and Lyme borreliosis in human sera. J. Clin. Microbiol. 33:3054-3057.
19. Mitchell P. D., K. D. Reed, and J. M. Hofkes. 1996. Immunoserologic evidence of coinfection with Borrelia burgdorferi, Babesia microti, and human granulocytic Ehrlichia species in residents of Wisconsin and Minnesota. J. Clin. Microbiol. 34:724-727.
20. Muenchhoff, P., B. Wilske, V. Preac-Mursic, and G. Schierz. 1986. Antibodies against Borrelia burgdorferi in Bavarian Forest workers. Zentralbl. Bakteriol. Hyg. Ser. A 263:412-419.
21. Munderloh, U. G., J. E. Madigan, J. S. Dumler, J. L. Goodman, S. F. Hayes, J. E. Barlough, C. M. Nelson, and T. J. Kurtti. 1996. Isolation of the equine granulocytic ehrlichiosis agent, Ehrlichia equi, in tick cell culture. J. Clin. Microbiol. 34:664-670.
22. Nicholson, W. L., J. A. Comer, J. W. Sumner, C. Gingrichbaker, R. T. Coughlin, L. A. Magnarelli, J. G. Olson, and J. E. Childs. 1997. An indirect immunofluorescence assay using a cell culture-derived antigen for detection of antibodies to the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis. J. Clin. Microbiol. 35:1510-1516.
23. Olsson Engvall, E., B. Pettersson, M. Persson, K. Artursson, and K.-E. Johansson. 1996. A 16S rRNA-based PCR assay for detection and identification of granulocytic Ehrlichia species in dogs, horses, and cattle. J. Clin. Microbiol. 34:2170-2174.
24. Pancholi, P., C. P. Kolbert, P. D. Mitchell, K. D. Reed, J. S. Dumler, J. S. Bakken, S. R. Telford III, and D. H. Persing. 1995. Ixodes dammini as a potential vector of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis. J. Infect. Dis. 172:1007-1012.
25. Petrovec, M., S. L. Furlan, T. A. Zupanc, F. Strle, P. Brouqui, V. Roux, and J. S. Dumler. 1997. Human disease in Europe caused by a granulocytic Ehrlichia species. J. Clin. Microbiol. 35:1556-1559.
26. Reed, K. D., P. D. Mitchell, D. H. Persing, C. P. Kolbert, and V. Cameron. 1995. Transmission of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis. JAMA 273:23.
27. Rikihisa, Y. 1991. The tribe Ehrlichieae and ehrlichial diseases. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 4:286-308.
28. AL, p. 704-709. In N. R. Krieg and J. G. Holt, Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 1. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, Md.
29. Sumption, K. J., D. J. M. Wright, S. J. Cutler, and B. A. S. Dale. 1995. Human ehrlichiosis in the UK. Lancet 346:1487-1488.
30. Walker, D. H., and J. S. Dumler. 1996. Emergence of the ehrlichioses as human health problems. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 2:18-29.
31. Wilske, B., V. Fingerle, P. Herzer, A. Hofmann, G. Lehnert, H. Peters, H. W. Pfister, V. Preac-Mursic, E. Soutschek, and K. Weber. 1993. Recombinant immunoblot in the serodiagnosis of Lyme borreliosis. Med. Microbiol. Immunol. 182:255-270.
32. Wormser, G. P., H. W. Horowitz, J. S. Dumler, I. Schwartz, and M. Aguero-Rosenfeld. 1996. False-positive Lyme disease serology in human granulocytic ehrlichiosis. Lancet 347:981-982.