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ArticleCureus2025

The Wrong Place and Wrong Time for a Doctor to Get Ehrlichiosis.

Justen M Aprile, Bettina Aprile

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Article in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Justen M AprilePediatrics, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, USA.
Bettina AprileFamily and Community Medicine, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Febrile illnesses with associated laboratory abnormalities can have a wide differential diagnosis. While geographic location and seasonality can inform a workup, the overall incidence of specific conditions can lead to anchoring biases. Tick-borne illnesses are an important pathology to consider, despite known patterns and occurrences.Here, we discuss the case of a 42-year-old male pediatrician living in the central Pennsylvania area, with no significant past medical history, presenting with headache, diffuse myalgias, and several laboratory abnormalities, ultimately found to have ehrlichiosis in November, though not in an endemic region or the expected time of the year.

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hepatitis workupinfectious causes of febrile jaundicepublic health and safetysepsis-induced thrombocytopeniatick-borne infectionsviral hepatitis

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PMID40918864
PMCPMC12412423

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