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

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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2010.131583" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2010.131583</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2010.131583" target="_blank" >10.3201/eid2010.131583</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Prevalence of Borrelia miyamotoi in Ixodes Ticks in Europe and the United States
Original language description
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-ionization mass spectrometry. Ticks were collected from California, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Indiana in the United States and from Germany and the Czech Republic in Europe from 2008 through 2012. In addition, an isolate from Japan was characterized. We found 3 distinct genotypes, 1 for North America, 1 for Europe, and 1 for Japan. We found B. miyamotoi infection in ticks in 16 of the 26 sites surveyed, with infection prevalence as high as 15.4%. Theseresults show the widespread distribution of the pathogen, indicating an exposure risk to humans in areas where Ixodes ticks reside.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
GJ - Diseases and animal vermin, veterinary medicine
OECD FORD branch
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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