Volume 17, Number 10—October 2011
Research
Humans Infected with Relapsing Fever Spirochete Borrelia miyamotoi, Russia
Alexander E. Platonov, Ludmila S. Karan, Nadezhda M. Kolyasnikova, Natalya A. Makhneva, Marina G. Toporkova, Victor V. Maleev, Durland Fish, and Peter J. Krause
Table 1
Classification of suspected tick-borne infections, Yekaterinburg City, Russia, May–August 2009*
| Classification | Total no. patients | No. patients with erythema migrans | Amplifiable DNA/RNA, by PCR | Antibody | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borrelia miyamotoi | B. burgdorferi s.l. | TBEV | Borrelia IgM | TBEV IgM | ||||
| B. miyamotoi infection, confirmed | 46 | 4 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 0 | |
| B. miyamotoi infection, unconfirmed | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| B. miyamotoi infection, TBEV co-infection | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
| B. garinii infection, confirmed | 21 | 19 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 21 | 0 | |
| B. burgdorferi s.l. infection | 83 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 0 | |
| Borrelia spp. infection, unconfirmed | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 0 | |
| TBEV infection, confirmed | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 21 | |
| TBEV, B. burgdorferi s.l. co-infection | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ND | 9 | |
| TBEV, Borrelia spp. co-infection | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 11 | |
| Other inflammatory disease | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
*TBEV, tick-borne encephalitis virus; Ig, immunoglobulin; ND, not determined. *TBEV, tick-borne encephalitis virus; Ig, immunoglobulin; ND, not determined. *TBEV, tick-borne encephalitis virus; Ig, immunoglobulin; ND, not determined. *TBEV, tick-borne encephalitis virus; Ig, immunoglobulin; ND, not determined. | |
*TBEV, tick-borne encephalitis virus; Ig, immunoglobulin; ND, not determined.
