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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology (2023). [3] Ehrlichia Notch signaling induction promotes XIAP stability and inhibits apoptosis . Infection and Immunity (2023).

The failure to test for Ehrlichia, even as more and more evidence suggests that the infection may be just as common as other endemic tick-borne diseases, appears to impact patient care with ...

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 ...

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.