Table 7. Reported coinfections in human ehrlichiosis (n = 32).
Reported coinfection pathogen(s)* | Number of coinfections among human ehrlichiosis CRID [n = 416] n (%) | Number of coinfections among human ehrlichiosis CRNID [n = 844] n (%) | Number of coinfections among all human ehrlichiosis cases [n = 1260] n (%) |
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Tick-borne pathogens | |||
Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato | 7 (1) | 1 (<1) | 8 (<1) |
Colorado tick fever | - | 1 (<1) | 1 (<1) |
Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. + Babesia spp. | 1 (<1) | - | 1 (<1) |
Babesia spp. | 2 (<1) | - | 2 (<1) |
Rickettsia spp. | 6 (1) | 4 (<1) | 10 (<1) |
Rickettsia rickettsii + Coxiella burnetti | 1 (<1) | - | 1 (<1) |
Anaplasma phagocytophilum | 3 (<1) | - | 3 (<1) |
Other arthropod-borne pathogens | |||
Orientia tsutsugamushi | 1 (<1) | - | 1 (<1) |
Dengue virus | 1 (<1) | - | 1 (<1) |
Non-vector-borne pathogens | |||
Escherichia coli | 1 (<1) | - | 1 (<1) |
Epstein-Bar virus | 3 (<1) | - | 3 (<1) |
Total | 26 | 6 | 32 |
CRID, cases reported with individual data; CRNID, cases reported with non-individual data; spp. species.
* Note that the list of coinfections is based on the coinfections reported by the authors in the original publication, which, however, often cannot by checked for validity due to a lack of information on the corresponding diagnostics and therefore do not allow a conclusive assessment.