Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 1998)

Ehrlichia Infection in Italy

  • M. Nuti,
  • D.A. Serafini,
  • D. Bassetti,
  • A. Ghionni,
  • F. Russino,
  • P. Rombolà,
  • G. Macri,
  • E. Lillini

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0404.980420
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 4
pp. 663 – 665

Abstract

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Immunoglobulin M seroconversion to Ehrlichia chaffeensis was documented in U.S. citizens bitten by ticks in Sardinia. Seven cases of suspected ehrlichiosis in local residents were not confirmed by laboratory tests. In Alpine areas antibodies to E. phagocytophila were detected in persons at high risk, i.e., foresters (8.6%) and hunters (5.5%), and in controls (l.5%). Of 153 persons bitten by ticks, only one was Ehrlichia antibody-positive after 6 months.

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