Prevalence of Borrelia miyamotoi in Ixodes Ticks in Europe and the United States

Prevalence of Borrelia miyamotoi in Ixodes Ticks in Europe and the United States

Borrelia miyamotoi, a relapsing fever-related spirochete transmitted by Ixodes ticks, has been recently shown to be a human pathogen. To characterize the prevalence of this organism in questing Ixodes ticks, we tested 2,754 ticks for a variety of tickborne pathogens by PCR and electrospray-ionizatio...

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Main Authors: Chris D. Crowder, Heather E. Carolan, Megan A. Rounds, Vaclav Honig, Benedikt Mothes, Heike Haag, Oliver Nolte, Ben J. Luft, Libor Grubhoffer, David J. Ecker, Steven E. Schutzer, Mark W. Eshoo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2014-10-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Borrelia
Borrelia miyamotoi
relapsing fever
emerging pathogen
electrospray ionization mass spectrometry
PCR-ESI/MS
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/10/13-1583_article

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