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Septicemia Caused by Tick-borne Bacterial Pathogen Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis

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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 16, Issue 7, Pages 1127-1129

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CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL
DOI: 10.3201/eid1607.091907

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We have repeatedly detected Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis, a bacterium first described in Rattus norvegicus rats and Ixodes ovatus ticks in Japan in 2004 in the blood of a 61-year-old man with signs of septicemia by 16S rRNA and groEL gene PCR. After 6 weeks of therapy with doxycycline and rifampin, the patient recovered.

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