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Another tick-borne disease, human granulocytic ehrlichiosis, caused by a particularly aggressive bacterium identified in 1994, can result in death if tetracycline treatment does not start early enough.

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Unfortunately the two species of Ehrlichia are sufficiently distinct from each other so that the existing test for the monocytic disease will not always betray the presence of the granulocytic one.

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