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Detection of a Borrelia miyamotoi Sensu Lato Relapsing-Fever Group
Spirochete from Ixodes pacificus in California
JEOMHEE MUN, REBECCA J. EISEN, LARS EISEN, AND ROBERT S. LANE
J. Med. Entomol. 43(1): 120Ð123 (2006)
ABSTRACT
We investigated whether host-seeking nymphs and adults of the western blacklegged
tick, Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls, the primary vector of Lyme disease spirochetes in far-western
North America, are infected naturally with relapsing-fever group spirochetes in Mendocino County,
California. Relapsing-fever group borreliae were detected in four (1.7%) of 234 nymphal and two
(0.7%) of 282 adult host-seeking I. pacificus ticks by polymerase chain reaction and sequence analysis
of the 16S rRNA and flagellin genes, respectively, exhibiting 99 and 98.5% sequence homology to
Borrelia miyamotoi Fukunaga. Phylogenetic analysis based on these two genes revealed that the
borreliae detected in these ticks belong to the relapsing-fever group and that these are closely related
to, if not identical with, B. miyamotoi.
KEY WORDS Borrelia miyamotoi, Ixodes pacificus, relapsing-fever group spirochetes, California
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