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. 2014 Jul;20(7):1244-5.
doi: 10.3201/eid2007.131525.

Human exposure to tickborne relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia miyamotoi, the Netherlands

Manoj Fonville, Ingrid H M Friesema, Paul D Hengeveld, Arieke Docters van Leeuwen, Seta Jahfari, Margriet G Harms, Arnold J H van Vliet, Agnetha Hofhuis, Wilfrid van Pelt, Hein Sprong, Cees C van den Wijngaard

Human exposure to tickborne relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia miyamotoi, the Netherlands

Manoj Fonville et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2014 Jul.
No abstract available

Keywords: B. burgdorferi sensu lato; Borrelia; Lyme disease; Tickborne diseases; borreliosis; miyamotoi; relapsing fever; the Netherlands; zoonoses.

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Locations of ticks collected through the website http://www.tekenradar.nl in the Netherlands during summer 2012,. Ticks included in the study were submitted from all parts of the country; ticks positive for Borrelia miyamotoi and B. burgdorferi were found in almost every region.
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