There will likely never be a Lyme vaccine says researcher Alan Barbour.

Why some strains of Lyme disease bacteria are common and others are not Findings could lead to novel strategy to... View Article

Updates on Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex with respect to public health

Summary Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) complex is a diverse group of worldwide distributed bacteria that includes 18 named spirochete... View Article

Multilocus sequence analysis of Borrelia bissettii strains from North America reveals a new Borrelia species, Borrelia kurtenbachii

Gabriele Margos,a,* Andrias Hojgaard,b Robert S. Lane,c Muriel Cornet,d Volker Fingerle,e Nataliia Rudenko,f Nicholas Ogden,g David M. Aanensen,h Durland Fish,i... View Article

Humans Infected with Relapsing Fever Spirochete Borrelia miyamotoi, Russia

Abstract Borrelia miyamotoi is distantly related to B. burgdorferi and transmitted by the same hard-body tick species. We report 46... View Article

Detection of Borrelia bissettii in cardiac valve tissue of a patient with endocarditis and aortic valve stenosis in the Czech Republic.

Nataliia Rudenko Maryna Golovchenko Aleš Mokráček Natalja Piskunová Daniel Růžek Nadja Mallatová Libor Grubhoffer ABSTRACT Molecular analysis of a clinical... View Article

Reservoir Competence of Wildlife Host Species for Babesia microti.

Hersh MH, Tibbetts M, Strauss M, Ostfeld RS, Keesing F. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2012 Dec; 18(12): 1951-7. Abstract Human babesiosis... View Article

Bartonella henselae endocarditis of percutaneously implanted pulmonary valve.

J Heart Valve Dis. 2011 Jan;20(1):94-7. Atamanyuk I, Raja SG, Kostolny M. Source Department of Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Great Ormond... View Article

Detection and heterogeneity of Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes ticks by culture-dependent and culture-independent methods

Authors: Xu G, Wesker J, White C, Campbell J, Reich NG and Rich SM Citation: J. Clin. Microbiol. 2012(Nov) Location: ... View Article

Comparison of the Babesia duncani (WA1) IgG Detection Rates among Clinical Sera Submitted to a Reference Laboratory for WA1 IgG Testing and Blood Donor Specimens from Diverse Geographic Areas of the United States

Abstract All reported cases of WA1 babesiosis have occurred in the Pacific coast region of the United States, suggesting that... View Article

Characterization of Biofilm Formation by Borrelia burgdorferi In Vitro

Abstract Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, has long been known to be capable of forming aggregates... View Article

Persisting atypical and cystic forms of Borrelia burgdorferi and local inflammation in Lyme neuroborreliosis

Abstract Background The long latent stage seen in syphilis, followed by chronic central nervous system infection and inflammation, can be... View Article

Vascular binding of a pathogen under shear force through mechanistically distinct sequential interactions with host macromolecules

Summary Systemic dissemination of microbial pathogens permits microbes to spread from the initial site of infection to secondary target tissues... View Article

Cotransmission of Divergent Relapsing Fever Spirochetes by Artificially Infected Ornithodoros hermsii

Paul F. Policastro,* Sandra J. Raffel, and Tom G. Schwan Medical Entomology Section, Laboratory of Zoonotic Pathogens, Rocky Mountain Laboratories,... View Article

Bartonella spp. Bacteremia and Rheumatic Symptoms in Patients from Lyme Disease–endemic Region

In Response: We offer the following comments to Beard et al. (1) and Raoult (2) regarding their respective responses to... View Article

Large differences between test strategies for the detection of anti-Borrelia antibodies are revealed by comparing eight ELISAs and five immunoblots.

Ang CW, Notermans DW, Hommes M, Simoons-Smit AM, Herremans T. Source VUMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. w.ang@vumc.nl Abstract We investigated the... View Article

Characterization of Biofilm Formation by Borrelia burgdorferi in Vitro

Abstract Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, has long been known to be capable of forming aggregates... View Article

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