TY - JOUR
AU - Williams, Cathy V.
AU - Van Steenhouse, Jan L.
AU - Bradley, Julie M.
AU - Hancock, Susan I.
AU - Hegarty, Barbara C.
AU - Breitschwerdt, Edward B.
T1 - Naturally Occurring Ehrlichia chaffeensis Infection in Two Prosimian Primate Species: Ring-tailed Lemurs (Lemur catta) and Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia variegata)
T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal
PY - 2002
VL - 8
IS - 12
SP - 1497
SN - 1080-6059
AB - A naturally occurring infection of Ehrlichia chaffeensis in lemurs is described. DNA of Ehrlichia chaffeensis was identified by polymerase chain reaction in peripheral blood from six of eight clinically ill lemurs. Organisms were cultured from the blood of one lemur exhibiting clinical and hematologic abnormalities similar to those of humans infected with E. chaffeensis.
KW - Ehrlichia chaffeensis
KW - ehrlichiosis
KW - tick-borne diseases
KW - primate
KW - lemur
KW - United States
DO - 10.3201/eid0812.020085
UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/8/12/02-0085_article
ER - End of Reference