Borrelia garinii in Seabird Ticks (Ixodes uriae), Atlantic Coast, North America

Smith, Robert P.; Muzaffar, Sabir Bin; Lavers, Jennifer; Lacombe, Eleanor H.; Cahill, Bruce K.; Lubelczyk, Charles B.; Kinsler, Allen; Mathers, Amy J.; Rand, Peter W.

Back to Previous Page

Borrelia garinii in Seabird Ticks (Ixodes uriae), Atlantic Coast, North America

Published Date:

Dec 2006

Source:

Emerg Infect Dis. 12(12):1909-1912.

[PDF-152.12 KB]

Details:

Alternative Title:

Emerg Infect Dis

Personal Author:

Smith, Robert P. ; Muzaffar, Sabir Bin ; Lavers, Jennifer ; Lacombe, Eleanor H. ; Cahill, Bruce K. ; ... More ▼

Description:

Borrelia garinii is the most neurotropic of the genospecies of B. burgdorferi sensu lato that cause Lyme disease in Europe, where it is transmitted to avian and mammalian reservoir hosts and to humans by Ixodes ricinus. B. garinii is also maintained in an enzootic cycle in seabirds by I. uriae, a tick found at high latitudes in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. To determine whether B. garinii is present in seabird ticks on the Atlantic Coast of North America, we examined 261 I. uriae ticks by polyclonal antiborrelial fluorescent antibody. Ten of 61 ticks from Gull Island, Newfoundland, were positive for borreliae by this screen. Amplicons of DNA obtained by PCR that targeted the B. garinii rrs-rrla intergenic spacer were sequenced and matched to GenBank sequences for B. garinii. The potential for introduction of this agent into the North American Lyme disease enzootic is unknown.

Subject:

[+]

Document Type:

Journal Article

Collection(s):

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Main Document Checksum:

[+]

File Type:

Supporting Files:

	06-0448-F1.gif	image/gif
	06-0448-F1.jpg	image/jpeg
	06-0448-F2.gif	image/gif
	06-0448-F2.jpg	image/jpeg
	06-0448.nxml	text/plain
	license.txt	text/plain

No Related Documents.

Modulatory Effect of Cattle on Risk for Lyme Disease

[PDF - 166.25 KB]

Personal Author:

Richter, Dania ; Matuschka, Franz-Rainer ;

Published Date:

Dec 2006

Source:

Emerg Infect Dis. 12(12):1919-1923.

Description:

To determine the effect of cattle on the risk for Lyme disease, we compared the prevalence of spirochete infection in questing vector ticks collected ...

File Type:

[PDF - 166.25 KB]

File Type:

[PDF - 166.25 KB]
Borrelia mayonii sp. nov., a member of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex, detected in patients and ticks in the upper midwestern United States

[PDF - 45.56 KB]

Personal Author:

Pritt, Bobbi S. ; Respicio-Kingry, Laurel B. ; ...

Published Date:

Aug 24 2016

Source:

Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 66(11):4878-4880.

Description:

Lyme borreliosis (LB) is a multisystem disease caused by spirochetes in the Borrelia burgdorferisensu lato (Bbsl) genospecies complex. We previously d...

File Type:

[PDF - 45.56 KB]

File Type:

[PDF - 45.56 KB]
Molecular characterization of a novel Rickettsia species from Ixodes scapularis in Texas.

[PDF - 189.38 KB]

Personal Author:

Billings, A. N. ; Teltow, G. J. ; ...

Published Date:

1998 Apr-Jun

Source:

Emerg Infect Dis. 4(2):305-309.

Description:

A novel Rickettsia species of undetermined pathogenicity was detected in Ixodes scapularis. DNA sequencing showed the highest nucleotide sequence simi...

File Type:

[PDF - 189.38 KB]

File Type:

[PDF - 189.38 KB]
Deer ticks (Ixodes scapularis) and the agents of Lyme disease and human granulocytic ehrlichiosis in a New York City park.

[PDF - 19.77 KB]

Personal Author:

Daniels, T. J. ; Falco, R. C. ; ...

Published Date:

1997 Jul-Sep

Source:

Emerg Infect Dis. 3(3):353-355.

Description:

Rodent trapping and drag sampling in Van Cortlandt Park, New York City, yielded all stages of Ixodes scapularis, the deer tick vector of Lyme disease ...

File Type:

[PDF - 19.77 KB]

File Type:

[PDF - 19.77 KB]
Bacteriophages and Diffusion of β-lactamase Genes

[PDF - 117.11 KB]

Personal Author:

Muniesa, Maite ; García, Aurora ; ...

Published Date:

Jun 2004

Source:

Emerg Infect Dis. 10(6):1134-1137.

Description:

We evaluated the presence of various Beta-lactamase genes within the bacteriophages in sewage. Results showed the occurrence of phage particles carryi...

File Type:

[PDF - 117.11 KB]

File Type:

[PDF - 117.11 KB]

Borrelia garinii in Seabird Ticks (Ixodes uriae), Atlantic Coast, North America

Borrelia garinii in Seabird Ticks (Ixodes uriae), Atlantic Coast, North America

You May Also Like:

Have Questions?

CDC INFORMATION

CONNECT WITH CDC