TY - JOUR AU - Assous, Marc Victor AU - Wilamowski, Amos AU - Bercovier, Herve AU - Marva, Esther T1 - Molecular Characterization of Tickborne Relapsing Fever Borrelia, Israel T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2006 VL - 12 IS - 11 SP - 1740 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Blood samples from 18 tickborne relapsing fever (TBRF) patients and Ornithodoros tholozani specimens were tested with a Borrelia flaB-PCR. Results were positive for all patients and 2%–40% of ticks. A 7–amino acid gap characterized all 9 sequenced flagellin gene amplicons. By phylogenetic analysis, Israel TBRF Borrelia sequences clustered separately from American and African groups. KW - Borrelia KW - Borrelia persica KW - relapsing fever KW - TBRF KW - tick KW - Ornithodoros tholozani KW - taxonomy KW - flaB KW - flagellin KW - molecular characterization KW - Israel KW - cave KW - Middle East KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1211.060715 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/11/06-0715_article ER - End of Reference