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Sunday, October, 25, 2009

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Health Encyclopedia: Lyme Disease And Related Tick Borne Infections Ehrlichiosis

Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis (HGA)


In addition to Lyme disease, I. scapularis deer ticks can carry other types of infections that cause disease in humans. Human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA) is another illness spread by the deer tick. (HGA was formerly called human granulocytic ehrlichiosis. Another type of ehrlichiosis, human monocytic ehrlichiosis, is carried by a different type of tick.)

Typical HGA symptoms appear very suddenly within 4 - 14 days of being bitten by an infected tick. Sympt...

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