Ehrlichia are rickettsiae, a type of bacteria that live inside cells. The disease they cause is known as ehrlichiosis. Several types of Ehrlichia cause disease in dogs, but two species are common ...

Ehrlichiosis is an infection spread by ticks that carry the ehrlichia bacterium. There are many species of tick in the U.S., but the lone star tick, found mainly in the central and southeastern ...

Image via Shutterstock Researchers are warning about a potentially deadly bacteria that's shown up in a invasive species of ticks for the first time. Connecticut officials confirmed the first case ...

Ehrlichiosis, also called human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME), is a rare infectious disease that is transmitted by ticks that carry a specific type of rickettsial bacteria of the genus Ehrlichia.

However, the recent case of a tick carrying Ehrlichia chaffeensis, the bacteria behind HME, in Connecticut involved the longhorned tick, a tick species native to eastern Asia.

Roman Ganta, a professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology at Kansas State University, has been awarded a grant of $1,825,000 by the National Institutes of Health to figure out how to stop ...

By Karen Rowan, MyHealthNewsDaily A 9-year-old Georgia boy who developed a rare tick-borne disease got the infection from a blood transfusion, according to a report of his case.

When patients present to providers in North Carolina for a possible tick bite, clinicians are not testing them for Ehrlichia, a tick-borne illness that occurs more frequently than Lyme disease and ...

Ehrlichiosis is a common tick-borne illness seen in animals and humans. It is most commonly seen in dogs and rarely in cats. This disease is caused by three different bacteria: Ehrlichia canis ...

Several species of bacteria cause ehrlichiosis, though most cases are tied to Ehrlichia chaffeensis. The disease is rarely documented, though cases have been increasing over time.

Officials announced Tuesday that they confirmed the first U.S. case of the invasive longhorned tick carrying Ehrlichia chaffeensis, a bacteria capable of causing a potentially deadly disease.