Detection of Borrelia lonestari, Putative Agent of Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness, in White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) from the Southeastern United States

To determine if white-tailed deer may serve as a reservoir host for Borrelia lonestari, we used a nested PCR for the Borrelia flagellin gene to evaluate blood samples collected from deer from eight southeastern states. Seven of 80 deer (8.7%) from 5 of 17 sites (29.4%) had sequence-confirmed evidenc...

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Hauptverfasser: Moore IV, Victor A., Varela, Andrea S., Yabsley, Michael J., Davidson, William R., Little, Susan E.
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: American Society for Microbiology 2003
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Bacteriology
Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC149587/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12517884
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.41.1.424-427.2003
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