TY - JOUR AU - Han, Seungeun AU - Hickling, Graham AU - Tsao, Jean T1 - High Prevalence of Borrelia miyamotoi among Adult Blacklegged Ticks from White-Tailed Deer T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2016 VL - 22 IS - 2 SP - 316 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We compared the prevalence of Borrelia miyamotoi infection in questing and deer-associated adult Ixodes scapularis ticks in Wisconsin, USA. Prevalence among deer-associated ticks (4.5% overall, 7.1% in females) was significantly higher than among questing ticks (1.0% overall, 0.6% in females). Deer may be a sylvatic reservoir for this newly recognized zoonotic pathogen. KW - Borrelia miyamotoi KW - Ixodes scapularis KW - reservoir competence KW - tick-borne disease KW - white-tailed deer KW - zoonoses KW - vector-borne disease KW - Wisconsin DO - 10.3201/eid2202.151218 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/22/2/15-1218_article ER - End of Reference