Infections with the tick-borne bacterium "candidatus neoehrlichia mikurensis" mimic noninfectious conditions in patients with B cell malignancies or autoimmune diseases

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1716-1722

  Grankvist, Anna ^a   Andersson, Per Ola ^a   Mattsson, Mattias ^b   Sender, Monica ^a   Vaht, Krista ^a   Höper, Linnea ^a   Sakiniene, Egidija ^a   Trysberg, Estelle ^a   Stenson, Martin ^c   Fehr, Jan ^d   Pekova, Sona ^e   Bogdan, Christian ^f   Bloemberg, Guido ^g   Wennerås, Christine ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Karlstad Hospital   (Sweden)

^c Kungalv Hospital   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e Laboratory for Molecular Diagnostics   (Czech Republic)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

B cell malignancies; human; infection, Neoehrlichia; tick borne

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AZATHIOPRINE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTOSINARABINOSIDE; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; METHOTREXATE; MITOXANTRONE; RITUXIMAB; TACROLIMUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANEMIA; ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BETA CELL CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; CANDIDATUS NEOEHRLICHIA MIKURENSIS INFECTION; CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING POLYNEUROPATHY; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CZECH REPUBLIC; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; GERMANY; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHILIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; SODIUM URINE LEVEL; SWEDEN; SWITZERLAND; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; ANAPLASMATACEAE INFECTIONS; BLOOD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; COMPLICATION; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; FEVER; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; SPLENECTOMY; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

AGED; ANAPLASMATACEAE INFECTIONS; ANEURYSM; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SPLENECTOMY; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84901786163     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu189     Document Type: Article

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