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• a  of or relating to granulocytes

• Instead he had contracted human granulocytic Ehrlichiosis, or HGE -- a newly discovered tick-borne disease that has stricken at least 90 people in New York, Minnesota, Wisconsin .
• Another tick-borne disease, human granulocytic ehrlichiosis, caused by a particularly aggressive bacterium identified in 1994, can result in death if tetracycline treatment does .