If the infection goes untreated, clinical
Ehrlichiosis occurs because the immune system is not able to eliminate the organism.
For this reason,
ehrlichiosis occurs anywhere this tick occurs.
Ehrlichiosis occurs worldwide in areas where the ticks that carry the disease are common.
Not exact matches
Much like Lyme disease and
Ehrlichiosis, the illness
occurs in several phases of increasing symptoms and severity.
This may be problematic in the case of an illness like
ehrlichiosis where there is some question over the ability to ever reliably cure a patient and therefore some risk of recurrence of the illness when immunosuppression
occurs for any reason.
Ehrlichiosis can be detected with a blood test; however, a positive result may not
occur for two to three weeks into the acute phase.