Category: E

A gram negative bacillus that is part of normal oral flora. It can cause serious human infections, including abscesses, empyema, and endocarditis, among others.  

To or having the ability of total visual recall of anything previously seen.  

One of several forms of an infectious disease of monocytes and granulocytes transmitted by exposure to species of Ehrlichia (small, gram-negative, obligate intracellular cocci of the Rickettsiaceae family). It was first reported in humans in the U.S. in 1987 and is considered an emerging disease.  

An ehrlichial species that causes a mononucleosis-like syndrome in Japan known as Sennetsu fever.  

An ehrlichial species that causes human granulocytic ehrlichiosis in Tennessee and neighboring states in the U.S.  

The former name of the bacterium now known as Anaplasma phagocytophilum.  

A genus of gram-negative bacteria that use the adenosine triphosphate (ATP) of other cells in order to survive. They are the pathogenic agents responsible for a variety of influenzalike illnesses in humans and canines, among other mammals.  

Interested chiefly in one’s self; self-centered.  

The tendency to regard oneself more highly than is warranted by the facts, and to boast of one’s abilities or achievements.  

An abnormal change in tone, somewhat like the bleat of a goat, heard in auscultation of the chest when the subject speaks normally. It is associated with bronchophony and may be heard over the lungs of persons with pleural effusion, or occasionally pneumonia. The peculiar sound, occasionally likened to a goat’s bleat, detected when a…