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Multiple and Diverse vsp and vlp Sequences in Borrelia miyamotoi, a Hard Tick-Borne Zoonotic Pathogen. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Based on chromosome sequences, the human pathogen Borrelia miyamotoi phylogenetically clusters with species that cause relapsing fever. But atypically for relapsing fever agents, B. miyamotoi is transmitted not by soft ticks but by hard ticks, which also
Alan G Barbour
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Relapsing Fever–Like Spirochetes Infecting European Vector Tick of Lyme Disease Agent
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2003 To determine whether relapsing fever–like spirochetes associated with hard ticks may infect Ixodes ricinus ticks in central Europe, we screened questing ticks for 16S rDNA similar to that of Asian and American relapsing fever–like spirochetes.
Dania Richter +2 more
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"Candidatus Borrelia kalaharica" Detected from a Febrile Traveller Returning to Germany from Vacation in Southern Africa. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016 A 26 year-old female patient presented to the Tropical Medicine outpatient unit of the Ludwig Maximilians-University in Munich with febrile illness after returning from Southern Africa, where she contracted a bite by a large mite-like arthropod, most ...
Volker Fingerle +8 more
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Possibilities for Relapsing Fever Reemergence
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006 Relapsing fever Borrelia infections have attracted little attention in recent years; however, where endemic, these infections still result in considerable illness and death. Despite the marked antimicrobial drug susceptibility of these organisms, therapy
Sally J. Cutler
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Pathogenic New World Relapsing Fever Borrelia in a Myotis Bat, Eastern China, 2015
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020 We identified Candidatus Borrelia fainii, a human pathogenic bacterium causing New World relapsing fever in a Myotis bat in eastern China. This finding expands knowledge about the geographic distribution of Borrelia spp.
Hui-Ju Han +9 more
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Typing African Relapsing Fever Spirochetes
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005 Relapsing fever Borrelia spp. challenge microbiologic typing because they possess segmented genomes that maintain essential genes on large linear plasmids. Antigenic variation further complicates typing.
Julie Christine Scott +2 more
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2012 BackgroundTick-borne relapsing fever spirochetes are maintained in endemic foci that involve a diversity of small mammals and argasid ticks in the genus Ornithodoros.
Tom G Schwan +9 more
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021 Bats can harbor zoonotic pathogens causing emerging infectious diseases, but their status as hosts for bacteria is limited. We aimed to investigate the distribution, prevalence and genetic diversity of Borrelia in bats and bat ticks in Hubei Province ...
Ze-Min Li +9 more
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Population Structure of East African Relapsing Fever Borrelia spp.
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2010 Differentiation of endemic East African tick-borne relapsing fever Borrelia duttonii spirochetes from epidemic louse-borne relapsing fever (LBRF) B. recurrentis spirochetes into different species has been questioned.
Sally J. Cutler +2 more
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Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2019 Tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF), characterized by recurring febrile episodes, is globally distributed and among the most common bacterial infections in some African countries.
Clay D. Jackson-Litteken +6 more
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