TY - JOUR AU - Bunikis, Jonas AU - Tsao, Jean AU - Garpmo, Ulf AU - Berglund, Johan AU - Fish, Durland AU - Barbour, Alan G. T1 - Typing of Borrelia Relapsing Fever Group Strains T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2004 VL - 10 IS - 9 SP - 1661 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Partial sequencing of the 16S-23S rDNA intergenic spacer showed two to four genotypes each for Borrelia hermsii and B. turicatae, both relapsing fever agents transmitted by argasid ticks, and for B. miyamotoi and B. lonestari, transmitted by ixodid ticks. Field surveys of Ixodes ticks in Connecticut and Sweden showed limited local diversity for B. miyamotoi. KW - Borrelia infections KW - Lyme disease, relapsing fever, soft ticks KW - hard ticks KW - rRNA operon KW - intergenic region KW - p66 outer membrane protein gene, dispatch KW - United States KW - Sweden DO - 10.3201/eid1009.040236 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/10/9/04-0236_article ER - End of Reference