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SUBMITTER: Rar VA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3367347 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rar Vera A VA Fomenko Natalia V NV Dobrotvorsky Andrey K AK Livanova Natalya N NN Rudakova Svetlana A SA Fedorov Evgeniy G EG Astanin Vadim B VB Morozova Olga V OV
Emerging infectious diseases 20051101 11
Ixodes persulcatus (n = 125) and Dermacentor reticulatus (n = 84) ticks from Western Siberia, Russia, were tested for infection with Borrelia, Anaplasma/Ehrlichia, Bartonella, and Babesia spp. by using nested polymerase chain reaction assays with subsequent sequencing. I. persulcatus ticks were infected with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (37.6% +/- 4.3% [standard deviation]), Anaplasma phagocytophilum (2.4% +/- 1.4%), Ehrlichia muris (8.8% +/- 2.5%), and Bartonella spp. (37.6% +/- 4.3%). D. re ...[more]