Borrelia miyamotoi Infections in Small Mammals, California, USA [PDF]
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.
Daniel J. Salkeld +4 more
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Borrelia miyamotoi in vivo antigenic variation demonstrated by serotype reisolations from infected mice [PDF]
Infect ImmunRelapsing fever Borrelia (RFB) employs antigenic variation to alter its surface protein structure in response to host immune pressure. This process occurs by the single translocation of archived variable major protein (Vmp) pseudogenes into a vmp ...
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Characteristics of Hard Tick Relapsing Fever Caused by Borrelia miyamotoi, United States, 2013–2019 [PDF]
Emerg Infect Dis, 2023 Borrelia miyamotoi, transmitted by Ixodes spp. ticks, was recognized as an agent of hard tick relapsing fever in the United States in 2013. Nine state health departments in the Northeast and Midwest have conducted public health surveillance for this ...
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Журнал инфектологии, 2014 The article presents the results of a survey of 77 patients with confirmed acute tick-borne infection in the age of 1 year to 17 years. Three patients (5%) selected Borrelia miyamotoi.
N. V. Skripchenko, A. A. Balinova
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Tick-borne Disease with Yezo Virus and Borrelia miyamotoi Coinfection [PDF]
Intern MedYezo virus is a novel virus transmitted by tick bites that causes fever with thrombocytopenia. To date, two reports have been published on patients with Yezo virus infection. However, the clinical characteristics of Yezo virus infection remain unclear. A
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Combining short- and long-read sequencing unveils geographically structured diversity in Borrelia miyamotoi [PDF]
iScienceSummary Borrelia miyamotoi is an emerging Ixodes tick-borne human pathogen in the Northern hemisphere. The aim of the current study was to compare whole genome sequences of B. miyamotoi isolates from different continents.
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A comparison of horizontal and transovarial transmission efficiency of Borrelia miyamotoi by Ixodes scapularis [PDF]
Ticks Tick Borne Dis, 2022 Borrelia miyamotoi is a relapsing fever spirochete carried by Ixodes spp. ticks throughout the northern hemisphere. The pathogen is acquired either transovarially (vertically) or horizontally through blood-feeding and passed transtadially across life ...
Geoffrey E. Lynn +5 more
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Systematic investigation of the Borrelia miyamotoi spirochetes in ticks, wildlife and domestic animal hosts in Yunnan province, Southwest China [PDF]
One HealthBackground Borrelia miyamotoi is a spirochete species transmitted via hard ticks. Following its discovery in Japan, this pathogen has been detected around the world, and is increasingly confirmed as a human pathogen causing febrile disease, namely ...
Chunhong Du +19 more
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Analysis of variable major protein antigenic variation in the relapsing fever spirochete, Borrelia miyamotoi, in response to polyclonal antibody selection pressure [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Borrelia miyamotoi is a tick-transmitted spirochete that is genetically grouped with relapsing fever Borrelia and possesses multiple archived pseudogenes that encode variable major proteins (Vmps). Vmps are divided into two groups based on molecular size;
R. Gilmore +6 more
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PLoS ONE, 2018 To determine whether human Borrelia miyamotoi infection occurs in the far-western United States, we tested archived sera from northwestern California residents for antibodies to this emerging relapsing fever spirochete.
Peter J Krause +8 more
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