What is anaplasmosis?
Anaplasmosis is a bacterial disease that infects white blood cells. It is carried by certain types of ticks. Like other diseases carried by these creatures, they may have vague symptoms and are difficult to diagnose them.
In this century, anaplasmosis was rather an economic problem and a disorder associated mainly with the cattle, but it is no longer. In 1993, human anaplasmosis was discovered. Originally, the disease was known as human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE), then as human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA) before renamed human anaplasmosis in 2003. About 600 to 800 cases per year are reported per year. This is probably the underestimation of the actual level of infection. It is transmitted to people of several types of ticks, including deer ticks. The ticks infected with this bacterium were found on the Pacific and Atlanto IC, as well as states in the Midwest, Southeast and Southwest of the US, the type of tick that transmits disease is also located in Europe and Asia. WhoOcency can also be transmitted by subcutaneous syringes and tattoo tools that have not been properly disinfected between use.
Some people who are infected show very few symptoms, but others suffer from symptoms typical of influenza. They may have fever, muscle pain, severe headache, trembling and chills. One complication is that ticks that transmit anaplasmosis, often also carry bacteria that cause other diseases such as Lyme disease, so a person can be infected with several diseases at a time. Older people and people with a compromised immune system are most prone to anaplasmosis.
The diagnosis is difficult because the symptoms are so general. This may take three weeks after the initial infectionic infection symptoms. The tick must feed at least 12 to 24 hours to transfer the disease causing the disease. Laboratory tests are required for diagnosis. They are looking for such testsThe presence of antibodies on a. Fagocytofilum or use a polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The latter test will look for the presence of DNA from bacteria that attacked white blood cells.
treatment usually includes tetracycline antibiotics, especially doxycycline. Unfortunately, many people are not looking for treatment because they do not realize that they are infected. An untreated disease may have fatal complications such as kidney and airway failure. It is possible to re -infect if he already had a disease. Vaccines are available, but they are not available in the United States since the beginning of 2010.