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SUBMITTER: Policastro PF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3233084 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Policastro Paul F PF Raffel Sandra J SJ Schwan Tom G TG
Applied and environmental microbiology 20110930 24
The soft tick Ornithodoros hermsi, which ranges in specific arboreal zones of western North America, acts as a vector for the relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia hermsii. Two genomic groups (genomic group I [GGI] and GGII) of B. hermsii are differentiated by multilocus sequence typing yet are codistributed in much of the vector's range. To test whether the tick vector can be infected via immersion, noninfected, colony-derived O. hermsi larvae were exposed to reduced-humidity conditions before im ...[more]