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Volume 9, Number 12—December 2003
Research

Human Monocytotropic Ehrlichiosis, Missouri

Juan P. Olano*Comments to Author , Edwin Masters†, Wayne Hogrefe‡, and David H. Walker*
Author affiliations: *University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA; †Premier Family Physicians, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA; ‡Focus Technologies, Cypress, California, USA

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Table 2

Selected epidemiologic and laboratory results for 29 patients with human monocytotropic ehrlichiosis (HME). Cape Girardeau, 1997–1999

Patient no. Age (y) Sex Y of diagnosis PCR resulta IFA titer
acute phase IFA titer
convalescent WBC x 109/L Platelets x 109/L
1
 44
 M
 1999
 +
 1:512
 1:1024
 1.9
 90
2
 42
 M
 1999
 +
 1:256
 1:512
 3.5
 114
3
 63
 F
 1999
 –
 1:1024
 1:2048
 6.4
 83
4
 53
 M
 1999
 +
 Neg
 1:512
 4.5
 180
5
 77
 F
 1999
 –
 1:1024
 NA
 3.5
 44
6
 43
 M
 1999
 +
 1:512
 NA
 1.9
 89
7
 48
 M
 1999
 +
 1:128
 1:2048
 4.0
 NA
8
 30
 M
 1999
 –
 1:1024
 NA
 NA
 NA
9
 28
 F
 1999
 +
 1:512
 NA
 5.4
 NA
10
 22
 F
 1998
 +
 Neg
 1:128
 2.1
 142
11
 59
 M
 1998
 +
 Neg
 1:256
 8.8
 229
12
 67
 M
 1998
 +
 Neg
 1:512
 4.2
 36
13
 78
 F
 1998
 +
 Neg
 NA
 NA
 NA
14
 49
 F
 1998
 +
 1:4096
 1:4096
 2.6
 271
15
 65
 M
 1998
 –
 1:256
 1:1024
 4.3
 207
16
 26
 M
 1998
 –
 1:1024
 NA
 2.9
 106
17
 44
 F
 1998
 –
 1:64
 NA
 10.0
 397
18
 27
 M
 1998
 –
 1:64
 NA
 8.5
 246
19
 24
 F
 1998
 +
 1:256
 NA
 2.4
 69
20
 59
 M
 1998
 –
 1:1024
 NA
 4.9
 102
21
 65
 M
 1998
 –
 1:256
 NA
 4.4
 121
22
 52
 M
 1998
 –
 1:1024
 1:1024
 1.2
 39
23
 54
 M
 1998
 +
 1:128
 NA
 NA
 NA
24
 15
 M
 1997
 –
 Neg
 1:64
 6.4
 308
25
 70
 M
 1997
 +
 Neg
 NA
 5.0
 222
26
 47
 F
 1997
 +
 Neg
 1:512
 NA
 NA
27
 31
 M
 1997
 +
 Neg
 NA
 3.5
 56
28
 67
 M
 1997
 –
 1:2048
 NA
 5.2
 208
29 59 M 1997 – 1:4096 NA 6.9 166

aSummary of all target genes used in the study: PCR, polymerase chain reaction; IFA, immunofluorescent assay; WBC, white blood cells; +, positive; –, negative; M, male; F, female; NA, not available.

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