Ehrlichia
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Ehrlichia
[er′lik·ē·ə] (microbiology)
A genus of the tribe Ehrlichieae; coccoid to ellipsoidal or pleomorphic cells; intracellular parasites in cytoplasm of host leukocytes.
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