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TICKS AND TICK-BORNE DISEASES
Volume 3, Issue 4, Pages 259-261Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.06.003
Keywords
Hard tick-borne relapsing fever; Amblyomma geoemydae; Transstadial transmission
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- Global Environment Research Fund of the Ministry of the Environment AND Japan [F-3, F-081]
- Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23406012] Funding Source: KAKEN
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A novel relapsing fever Borrelia sp. was found in Amblyomma geoemydae in Japan. The novel Borrelia sp. was phylogenetically related to the hard (ixodid) tick-borne relapsing fever Borrelia app. Borrelia miyamotoi and B. lonestari. The novel relapsing fever Borrelia sp. was detected in 39 A. geoemydae (39/274: 14.2%), of which 14(14/274: 5.1%) were co-infected with the novel relapsing fever Borrelia sp. and Borrelia sp. tAG, one of the reptile-associated borreliae. Transstadial transmission of the novel relapsing fever Borrelia sp. occurred in the tick midgut and the salivary glands, although Borrelia sp. tAG was only detected in the tick midgut. The difference of the borrelial niche in molted ticks might be associated with borrelial characterization. (c) 2012 Published by Elsevier GmbH.
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