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. 2018 May;24(5):928-931.
doi: 10.3201/eid2405.171355.

Borrelia miyamotoi sensu lato in Père David Deer and Haemaphysalis longicornis Ticks

Yi Yang, Zhangping Yang, Patrick Kelly, Jing Li, Yijun Ren, Chengming Wang

Borrelia miyamotoi sensu lato in Père David Deer and Haemaphysalis longicornis Ticks

Yi Yang et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2018 May.

Abstract

By sequence analysis of 16S rRNA, flaB, p66, and glpQ, we identified Borrelia miyamotoi in 1 of 4 Père David deer (n = 43) seropositive for Borrelia spp. and 1.2% (3/244) of Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks from Dafeng Elk National Natural Reserve, China. Future studies should assess Borrelia pathogenesis in deer.

Keywords: Borrelia miyamotoi; China; Haemaphysalis longicornis; Lyme disease; Père David deer; bacteria; endangered; extinct in wild; ticks; vector-borne infections.

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Neighbor-joining phylogenetic trees constructed with 16S rRNA, flaB, p66, and glpQ gene sequences of Borrelia spp. isolates collected from Père David deer (Elaphurus davidianus) and Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks, Dafeng Elk National Natural Reserve, China, and reference isolates. The isolates identified in this study (bold; GenBank accession nos. MF521973, MF541143, MG763228, MG763229) are most similar to B. miyamotoi of the relapsing fever group. Numbers at branch nodes show bootstrap support (1,000 replicates). Scale bars indicate nucleotide substitutions per site.
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