Human Borrelia miyamotoi infection in California: Serodiagnosis is complicated by multiple endemic Borrelia species.

Human Borrelia miyamotoi infection in California: Serodiagnosis is complicated by multiple endemic Borrelia species.

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. These residents frequently were exposed to I. pacificus ticks in a region where...

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Main Authors: Peter J Krause, Madeleine Carroll, Natalia Fedorova, Janna Brancato, Cecilia Dumouchel, Fredua Akosa, Sukanya Narasimhan, Erol Fikrig, Robert S Lane
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5805228?pdf=render

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