Taxonomy	Species	Ehrlichia chaffeensis
	Category	Bacteria
	Genus	Ehrlichia
	Family	Anaplasmataceae
	Order/Class	Rickettsiales
	Phylum	Proteobacteria
Human and animal disease	Human disease	Human monocytic ehrlichiosis
	Predominant syndrome	Exanthema
	Occ. risk group	Forestry, and related workers
	Incubation time	5-10 days
	Disease in farm animals	No
	Disease in pets and horses	Yes
	Disease in wildlife	Yes
	Specfic animal species	Dogs, cats, coyotes, goats, deer, rodents
Reservoirs	Humans	No
	Farm animals	No
	Pets and horses	No
	Wildlife	Yes
	Specific animal species	White tailed deer

Transmission	Human to human	No
	Skin	No
	Tissue/blood: Arthropods	Yes
	Tissue/blood: Invasive actions	No
	Secreta/excreta: Air	No
	Secreta/excreta: Water/food/environment	No
	Secreta/excreta: Close animal contact	No
	Transmission info	Ticks
Geographic distribution	Netherlands	No
	Europe	Yes
	Africa	Yes
	North America	Yes
	South America	Yes
	Australia	No
	Asia	No
	Distribution info	America
Info	Specifics
	Human ref. website URL
	Animal ref. website URL

		Value		Normalised value	Weight	Score
1	Probability of introduction into the Netherlands	0.5	%	0	0.418	0
2	Transmission in animal reservoirs	0.005	%	0.39	0.292	0.11
3	Economic damage, animal reservoirs	0.5	M€	0	0.337	0
4	Animal-human transmission	0.005	%	0	0.626	0
5	Human-human transmission	0	%	0	0.339	0
6	Morbidity	0.06		0.28	0.181	0.05
7	Mortality	5	%	0.81	0.643	0.52
	Total					0.69
	Normalised score					0.27

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