How to Use anaplasmosis in a Sentence

anaplasmosis

noun
  • Those who are older or who have weakened immune systems may be at risk for severe illness due to anaplasmosis.
    — Alexandria Hein, Fox News, 2 July 2021
  • Another disease caused by ticks is anaplasmosis, which causes fever, headache, chills, and muscle aches.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 4 May 2024
  • Other diseases that ticks can pass to people and pets include ehrlichiosis and anaplasmosis.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Howe says pets with anaplasmosis may experience lack of appetite, joint pain, fever, lethargy or lameness.
    — Chanel Stitt, Detroit Free Press, 6 July 2020
  • For both anaplasmosis and ehrlichiosis, symptoms typically start within two weeks after the bite.
    — Patia Braithwaite, SELF, 26 July 2019
  • Ticks in the poppy-seed-sized nymph stage are responsible for transmitting Lyme disease, as well as babesiosis and anaplasmosis.
    — Kayla Hui, Mph, Verywell Health, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Ticks that transmit Lyme disease can also transmit other pathogens causing less-common diseases such as anaplasmosis and babesiosis.
    — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 9 July 2018
  • Deer ticks spread other diseases, including Lyme disease and anaplasmosis, health officials said.
    — Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 26 June 2025
  • These ticks are the main driver of not only Powassan virus, but also Lyme disease, babesiosis, anaplasmosis and borrelia miyamoto.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Ticks were tested for a variety of diseases including Lyme disease, babesiosis, anaplasmosis and Powassan virus.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The prognosis is brighter now, but lingering problems include anaplasmosis – a blood disease transmitted by the ticks latched to its skin – and a delicate stomach not yet ready to return to a natural diet.
    — Benjy Egel, sacbee, 14 Feb. 2018
  • One difference, however, is that bites from ticks infected with Lyme usually result in a telltale rash, often shaped like a bull’s-eye; bites from ticks infected with anaplasmosis do not.
    — New York Times, 26 June 2022
  • These insects can in turn carry and spread infectious diseases such as anaplasmosis, angiostrongylus, babesiosis, borreliosis, Lyme disease, and the plague.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Cases of Lyme, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, babesiosis, anaplasmosis and ehrlichiosis have increased several times over.
    — Joyce Sakamoto, Washington Post, 18 June 2018
  • The front-line treatment for Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, and ehrlichiosis is a different antibiotic, doxycycline.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Similar to Lyme disease, people who develop anaplasmosis develop nonspecific symptoms such as fever and muscle aches.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Ticks can also transmit microbes that cause Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia and human granulocytic anaplasmosis, among other diseases.
    — Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2022
  • The county’s health commissioner said Thursday that there have been six cases of anaplasmosis already reported in 2021, compared to just three cases reported over the last five years.
    — Alexandria Hein, Fox News, 2 July 2021
  • Ticks can also cause other diseases, including Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis, babesiosis and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
    — Maria Jimenez Moya, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2022
  • But a small percentage develop serious symptoms related to Lyme disease and other illnesses, including anaplasmosis and babesiosis.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 30 May 2025
  • Ticks spread Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, rabbit fever, Powassan virus and other ills, some of them only recently discovered.
    — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 1 May 2018
  • The same creature can also transmit other less common diseases, including babesiosis, granulocytic anaplasmosis and Powassan encephalitis.
    — Gregory B. Hladky, courant.com, 4 May 2018
  • These include the bacterial infection anaplasmosis, which can lead to symptoms like fever, nausea, vomiting, and more, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which can cause similar issues along with a splotchy rash, and other illnesses.
    — Kate Sheridan, SELF, 14 July 2018
  • Ticks have the ability to spread dangerous diseases, including Lyme disease, anaplasmosis and babesiosis, in as little as 36-48 hours after the initial bite, according to Mannes.
    — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 2 June 2021
  • Rickettsial illnesses include ehrlichiosis (15%), Rocky Mountain spotted fever (6%) and anaplasmosis (5%).
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 May 2022
  • In addition to Lyme disease, cases of anaplasmosis (another serious bacterial disease) and babesiosis (a malaria-like illness) are growing explosively in the northeastern United States and elsewhere.
    — Richard S. Ostfeld, STAT, 31 July 2023

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