1. Human granulocytic anaplasmosis acquired from a blacklegged tick in Ontario
- Author
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Stefan Edginton, Siddhartha Srivastava, T. Hugh Guan, and Gerald A Evans
- Subjects
Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Anaplasmosis ,Human granulocytic anaplasmosis ,Fever ,040301 veterinary sciences ,Nausea ,030231 tropical medicine ,Tick ,0403 veterinary science ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,Aged ,Ontario ,Practice ,biology ,Ixodes ,business.industry ,04 agricultural and veterinary sciences ,General Medicine ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,Anaplasma phagocytophilum ,Anti-Bacterial Agents ,Doxycycline ,Vomiting ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Granulocytes - Abstract
KEY POINTS A 79-year-old man was admitted to hospital in July after five days of fever (38°C as measured at home), headache, sensitivity to light, nausea and vomiting. Two weeks earlier, the patient had noticed a tick attached to his skin after hiking in the forest near his home. Subsequently, a
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- 2018