Abstract
<h3>To the Editor.</h3> — During the recent sesquiannual meeting of the American Society for Rickettsiology and Rickettsial Diseases held in Galveston, Tex, several investigators presented data concerning human ehrlichiosis, a newly recognized human zoonosis. Also published in the April 24 issue of<i>JAMA</i>was a report<sup>1</sup>that was misleading and implied the discovery of the agent of human ehrlichiosis by me and my coworkers. In fact, the report concerns data we presented at the March 1991 annual meeting of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, which details the pathology of several cases and the first documentation of an immunohistologically identified<i>Ehrlichia</i>in human tissues from one case of fatal ehrlichiosis. During the meeting of rickettsiologists, Jacqueline Dawson, MS, of the Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Ga, described the first isolation of<i>Ehrlichia</i>organisms from a patient in the United States.<sup>2</sup>Ms Dawson and her Centers for
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