Sentences with phrase «ehrlichia species»
Both had also recently been bitten by ticks, but tests for the usual tick - borne suspects — such as several Ehrlichia species, a group of intracellular bacteria — came back negative.
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Suspecting that the other four carried a new Ehrlichia species, the researchers sequenced the bacterial gene in their blood and compared it to a database containing the sequences of known infectious bacteria.