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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 52, Issue 11, Pages 4102-4104Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01670-14
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A 65-year-old female with a history of multiple tick bites presented with fever and pancytopenia. Intracytoplasmic rickettsial morulae were detected on peripheral smear and bone marrow biopsy specimens, and PCR amplified Ehrlichia ewingii DNA from both specimens. To our knowledge, this is the first report of E. ewingii infection of human bone marrow.
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