Strašek-Smrdel, Katja


Publications
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Case report: first symptomatic Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis infection in Slovenia

Citation
Lenart et al. (2021). BMC Infectious Diseases 21 (1)
Names
Ca. Neoehrlichia mikurensis
Abstract
Abstract Background Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis (CNM) is an emerging tick-born pathogen and usually causes symptomatic infection only in immunocompromised patients. Apart from one described case found in the literature where cultivation was successful, all cases so far were diagnosed by using broad-range 16S rDNA PCR. Case presentation Our patient presented with a prolonged febrile state of unknown origin. Clin