Characteristic peripheral blood findings in human ehrlichiosis

Modern Pathology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 512-517

  Hamilton, Katherine S ^a   Standaert, Steven M ^a   Kinney, Marsha C ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ehrlichia; Ehrlichiosis; Morulae; Peripheral blood

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SMEAR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIA EWINGII; EHRLICHIOSIS; FATALITY; GRANULATION TISSUE; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LARGE GRANULAR LYMPHOCYTE; MONOCYTE; MORULA; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CELL LINE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOXYCYCLINE; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTES; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MONOCYTES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3042799534     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.3800075     Document Type: Article

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