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  • Title: Statewide surveillance for ehrlichiosis--Connecticut and New York, 1994-1997.
    Author: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
    Journal: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep; 1998 Jun 19; 47(23):476-80. PubMed ID: 9649234.
    Abstract:
    In the United States, human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME) and human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE) represent two clinically indistinguishable yet epidemiologically and etiologically distinct diseases caused by Ehrlichia chaffeensis and a bacterium similar or identical to E. equi, respectively. Infection with these emerging tickborne pathogens results in acute, influenza-like illnesses with fever, headache, malaise, and frequently leukopenia and/or thrombocytopenia. Connecticut and New York have initiated statewide laboratory-based surveillance to determine the magnitude and geographic extent of ehrlichiosis. This report summarizes results from the first 3 years of surveillance, which showed that rates of ehrlichiosis were similar in counties in both states where the disease occurs, and highest age-specific rates occurred among persons aged >40 years.
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