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Ehrlichia HGE & EGE

CLINICAL SIGNS VARY BUT INCLUDE
Fever, Chills, Malaise, Headache, Myalgia, Nausea, vomiting,
Respiratory distress

We need your help in identifying suspect cases of ehrlichiosis and providing appropriate samples to obtain parasite isolates

If a patient is suspected of having ehrlichiosis, please contact:

	Dr. John E. Madigan Department of Medicine and Epidemiology School of Veterinary Medicine University of California at Davis Davis, CA 95616 Phone; (530) 752-6513, Fax; (530)752-0414
	jemadigan@ucdavis.edu

If a human patient is suspected of having ehrlichiosis in California, please contact:

	Janet Foley Center for Companion Animal Health Department of Medicine and Epidemiology School of Veterinary Medicine University of California, Davis, CA 95616 Phone: (530)752-1064
	jefoley@ucdavis.edu

or for human cases for all of UNITED STATES please contact:

	John Stephen Dumler Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Department of Pathology, Meyer B-193 600 N. Wolfe Street Baltimore, 21287 Phone; (410) 955-5077, Beeper; (410) 283-3429
	sdumler@pathlan.path.jhu.edu

IMMEDIATE submission of blood samples will greatly facilitate Ehrlichia diagnosis by culture.
We need blood samples within:
1x yellow (ACD) or
1x Lavender (EDTA) top

Send on ICE PACK to:

Spirochaeta and Rickettsia Laboratory

Department of Medicine and Epidemiology

School of Veterinary Medicine
University of California
Davis, California 95616-8737
Phone: (530)752-2371, FAX: (530)752-0414

E-mail: ewderock@ucdavis.edu

Designed by J. S. Chae. Send comments and suggestions to:

jchae@ucdavis.edu