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SUBMITTER: Arraga-Alvarado CM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4257640 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Arraga-Alvarado Cruz M CM Qurollo Barbara A BA Parra Omaira C OC Berrueta Maribel A MA Hegarty Barbara C BC Breitschwerdt Edward B EB
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20140929 6
This article presents two case reports of Anaplasma platys detection in two women from Venezuela. Both patients were exposed to Rhipicephalus sanguineus, the presumed tick vector, and experienced chronic, nonspecific clinical signs including headaches and muscle pains. Intra-platelet inclusion bodies resembling A. platys were observed in buffy coat smears and A. platys DNA was amplified and sequenced from whole blood; however, treatment with doxycycline did not alleviate their symptoms. These ca ...[more]