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KMID : 0880220100480060877
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Journal of Microbiology
2010 Volume.48 No. 6 p.877 ~ p.880
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The presence of Borrelia valaisiana-related genospecies in ticks and a rodent in Taiwan
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Chun-Man Huang
Ying-Chun Lin
Shih-Hui Chiu
Ying-Shun Kao
Hsiu-I Wang
Ruei-Chen Hung
Ho-Sheng Wu
Jung-Jung Mu
Hsi-Chieh Wang
Pei-Lung Lee
Chuen-Sheue Chiang
Huang-I Chan
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Abstract
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A field survey was conducted to investigate the presence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) in six counties of Taiwan. Spirochetes were successfully isolated from one rodent ear sample out of 485 rodent ears and 53 live, fed tick (Ixodes granulatus) samples. The spirochetes were confirmed to be B. burgdorferi s.l. by real-time PCR. In addition, 23 of 113 tick samples were tested positive for Borrelia DNA according to real-time PCR. The Borrelia isolate from the rodent and the 23 Borrelia DNA samples from the ticks were identified as B. valaisiana-related genospecies by phylogenetic analysis based on flagellin gene sequences. These findings suggest that the Borrelia valaisiana-related strains are maintained in a zoonotic cycle between tick vectors and reservoir hosts in Taiwan.
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KEYWORD
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Borrelia valaisiana-related, ticks, rodent
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