Pathogenic New World Relapsing Fever Borrelia in a Myotis Bat, Eastern China, 2015

Han, Hui-Ju; Liu, Jian-Wei; Wen, Hong-Ling; Li, Ze-Min; Lei, Si-Cong; Qin, Xiang-Rong; Zhou, Chuan-Min; Yu, Hao; Xiao, Xiao; Yu, Xue-Jie

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Pathogenic New World Relapsing Fever Borrelia in a Myotis Bat, Eastern China, 2015

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By Han, Hui-Ju ; Liu, Jian-Wei ; Wen, Hong-Ling ; ...

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Emerg Infect Dis
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Han, Hui-Ju ; Liu, Jian-Wei ; Wen, Hong-Ling ; Li, Ze-Min ; Lei, Si-Cong ; Qin, Xiang-Rong ; Zhou, Chuan-Min ; Yu, Hao ; Xiao, Xiao ; Yu, Xue-Jie
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We identified Candidatus Borrelia fainii, a human pathogenic bacterium causing New World relapsing fever in a Myotis bat in eastern China. This finding expands knowledge about the geographic distribution of Borrelia spp. and the potential for infection with New World relapsing fever in China.
Subjects:

Animals Borrelia Chiroptera Humans Relapsing Fever
Source:

Emerg Infect Dis. 26(12):3083-3085
Pubmed ID:

33219789
Pubmed Central ID:

PMC7706935
Document Type:

Journal Article
Genre:

Letter
Place as Subject:

China
Volume:

26
Issue:

12
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
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urn:sha256:1cc91dacf7a97b1d68e2dec99bd7ac75037f15996dc64c4027a742bb829c5849
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