TY - JOUR
AU - Smith, Robert P.
AU - Muzaffar, Sabir Bin
AU - Lavers, Jennifer
AU - Lacombe, Eleanor H.
AU - Cahill, Bruce K.
AU - Lubelczyk, Charles B.
AU - Kinsler, Allen
AU - Mathers, Amy J.
AU - Rand, Peter W.
T1 - Borrelia garinii in Seabird Ticks (Ixodes uriae), Atlantic Coast, North America
T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal
PY - 2006
VL - 12
IS - 12
SP - 1909
SN - 1080-6059
AB - Borrelia garinii is the most neurotropic of the genospecies of B. burgdorferi sensu lato that cause Lyme disease in Europe, where it is transmitted to avian and mammalian reservoir hosts and to humans by Ixodes ricinus. B. garinii is also maintained in an enzootic cycle in seabirds by I. uriae, a tick found at high latitudes in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. To determine whether B. garinii is present in seabird ticks on the Atlantic Coast of North America, we examined 261 I. uriae ticks by polyclonal antiborrelial fluorescent antibody. Ten of 61 ticks from Gull Island, Newfoundland, were positive for borreliae by this screen. Amplicons of DNA obtained by PCR that targeted the B. garinii rrs-rrla intergenic spacer were sequenced and matched to GenBank sequences for B. garinii. The potential for introduction of this agent into the North American Lyme disease enzootic is unknown.
KW - Borrelia garinii
KW - Ixodes uriae
KW - host-parasite interactions
KW - seabirds
KW - vectorborne disease
KW - host-pathogen introduction
KW - Atlantic Canada
KW - research
KW - United States
KW - Canada
DO - 10.3201/eid1212.060448
UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/12/06-0448_article
ER - End of Reference