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