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Relapsing Fever Group Borrelia in Southern California Rodents

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[CanLyme note: Lyme disease is a borreliosis, caused by many strains/species of Borrelia. Relapsing fever is simply strain related Lyme disease (borreliosis)] Journal of Medical Entomology 51(5):1029-1034. 2014  Nathan C. Nieto and Mike B. Teglas ABSTRACT Wild rodent reservoir host species were surveyed prospectively for infection with Borrelia hermsii, the causative agent of tick-borne relapsing fever in the…

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Cotransmission of Divergent Relapsing Fever Spirochetes by Artificially Infected Ornithodoros hermsii

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Paul F. Policastro,* Sandra J. Raffel, and  Tom G. Schwan Medical Entomology Section, Laboratory of Zoonotic Pathogens, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana 59840 Abstract The soft tick Ornithodoros hermsi, which ranges in specific arboreal zones of western North America, acts as a vector for…