An unusual presentation of immunoglobulin A gammopathy in a patient with Schnitzler's syndrome.

This case summarizes a 69-year-old woman who presented with a history of recurrent fevers, widespread urticarial rash and generalized myalgias for several years with an eventual diagnosis of Schnitzler's syndrome. This is a rare autoinflammatory condition which typically involves a chronic urticarial rash, monoclonal immunoglobulin M (IgM) or IgG gammopathy. Rapid improvement in above symptoms were noted with anakinra, an interleukin-1 receptor antagonist.

Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection induces apoptosis in HL-60 cells.

Anaplasma phagocytophilum, the causative agent of human granulocytic anaplasmosis, is an obligate intra-cellular bacterium that survives in neutrophils by delaying apoptosis. The human promyelocytic leukemia cell line HL-60 has been the ultimate choice for culturing Anaplasma in vitro. In this study, we assessed the various events of drug-induced apoptosis in A.

Antibodies to whole-cell or recombinant antigens of Borrelia burgdorferi, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, and Babesia microti in white-footed mice.

Serum samples were obtained from white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) in tick-infested areas of Connecticut during the period 2001 through 2003 and analyzed for antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, and Babesia microti. Emphasis was placed on the evaluations of highly specific recombinant VlsE or protein (p) 44 antigens of B. burgdorferi and A.