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SUBMITTER: Sexton DJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2640120 | biostudies-other | 1998 Apr-Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Emerging infectious diseases 19980401 2
Well-documented cases of simultaneous human infection with more than one tick-borne pathogen are rare. To our knowledge only two dual infections have been reported: simultaneous human infection with the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis and Borrelia burgdorferi and simultaneous human infection with B. burgdorferi and Babesia microti (1-2). Rocky Mountain spotted fever has long been known to be endemic in North Carolina; cases of human ehrlichial infection were recognized there soon after ...[more]