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Honoring Paul Ehrlich (Ehrlich, Paul), a German Nobel Prize winner and coworker of Robert Koch (Koch, Robert).
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Ehrlichia is a genus of bacteria being transmitted by ticks. E. phagocytophila (transmitted by Ixodes ticks) introduces the granulomatous ehrlichiosis in humans, horses, mice, and ruminants (Fig. 1); E. canis is the agent of the monocytic ehrlichiosis in dogs (transmitted by Rhipicephalus sanguineus), while E. chaffeensis introduces this disease in humans being transmitted by Amblyomma ticks in USA. E. phagocytophilum is synonym to Anaplasma phagocytophylum.
Giemsa-stained blood smear showing the morula-like stage of E. phagocytophila besides the curved nucleus of a white blood cell
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Mehlhorn, H. (2016). Ehrlichia . In: Mehlhorn, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parasitology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27769-6_1015-2
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