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Borrelia infection and risk of celiac disease [PDF]
BMC Medicine, 2017 Background: Environmental factors, including infectious agents, are speculated to play a role in the rising prevalence and the geographic distribution of celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder. In the USA and Sweden where the regional variation in the frequency of celiac disease has been studied, a similarity with the geographic ...
Alaedini, Armin +4 more
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Borrelia miyamotoi Infections in Small Mammals, California, USA
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018 Surveillance to investigate the wildlife–vector transmission cycle of the human pathogen Borrelia miyamotoi in California, USA, revealed infections in dusky-footed woodrats, brush mice, and California mice.
D. Salkeld +4 more
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Cross-Reactive Results in Serological Tests for Borreliosis in Patients with Active Viral Infections
Pathogens, 2022 Currently, serological tests for Lyme disease (LD), routinely performed in laboratories following the European Concerted Action on Lyme Borreliosis recommendations as part of two-stage diagnostics, are often difficult to interpret. This concerns both the
I. Wojciechowska-Koszko +5 more
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2000 Species of the genus Borrelia cause human and animal infections, including Lyme disease, relapsing fever, and epizootic bovine abortion. The borrelial genome is unique among bacterial genomes in that it is composed of a linear chromosome and a series of ...
David M. Roberts +3 more
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Identifying Relapsing Fever Borrelia, Senegal
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005 We describe a nested polymerase chain reaction for the identification of Borrelia species from serum of patients with unidentified fevers. This technique, based on single nucleotide polymorphisms of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene, was used to test blood ...
Hamoud Brahim +4 more
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Human Borrelia miyamotoi Infection, Austria [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020 We report a human case of Borrelia miyamotoi infection diagnosed in Austria. Spirochetes were detected in Giemsa-stained blood smears. The presence of B. miyamotoi in the patient's blood was confirmed by PCR, and phylogenetic analysis identified an infection with a strain from Europe.
Selma Tobudic +7 more
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First records of tick-borne pathogens in populations of the taiga tick Ixodes persulcatus in Sweden
Parasites & Vectors, 2019 Background The common tick Ixodes ricinus and the taiga tick I. persulcatus are the main tick vectors of Borrelia spirochaetes, TBE virus (TBEV) and of several other zoonotic pathogens in the western and eastern areas, respectively of the Palaearctic ...
Thomas G. T. Jaenson, Peter Wilhelmsson
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Migratory Passerine Birds as Reservoirs of Lyme Borreliosis in Europe
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006 To define the role of birds as reservoirs and disseminators of Borrelia spirochetes, we characterized tick infestation and reservoir competence of migratory passerine birds in Sweden.
Pär Comstedt +7 more
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Co-infections with multiple pathogens in natural populations of Ixodes persulcatus ticks in Mongolia
Parasites & Vectors, 2022 Background In Mongolia, the taiga tick Ixodes persulcatus is the major vector of tick-borne pathogens. Knowledge about co-infections of these pathogens in ticks is necessary both for understanding their persistence in nature and for diagnosing and ...
Ekaterina K. Lagunova +10 more
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Aktualʹnaâ Infektologiâ, 2014 Objective: to study the infectiousness of ticks (Ixodes persulcatus) with pathogens of various diseases in the Kirov region. Materials and Methods. We investigated 322 ticks collected in the southern taiga subzone, for the presence of DNA/RNA of tick ...
O.N. Lyubeznova +2 more
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