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Volume 27, Number 12—December 2021
Research Letter

Borrelia miyamotoi in Human-Biting Ticks, United States, 2013–2019

Guang XuComments to Author , Chu-Yuan Luo, Fumiko Ribbe, Patrick Pearson, Michel Ledizet, and Stephen M. Rich
Author affiliations: University of Massachusetts–Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts USA (G. Xu, C.-Y. Luo, F. Ribbe, P. Pearson, S.M. Rich); L2 Diagnostics, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (M. Ledizet)

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Table

Human-biting tick species positive for Borrelia miyamotoi and B. burgdorferi sensu lato, United States, 2013–2019

Tick species Total no. tested No. B. miyamotoi positive No. B. burgdorferi s.l. positive
Amblyomma americanum 1,167 0 0
A.          cajennense 1 0 0
A.          maculatum 8 0 0
Dermacentor andersoni 60 0 0
D. occidentalis 91 0 0
D. variabilis 1,060 0 0
Haemaphysalis leporispalustris 2 0 0
H. longicornis 7 0 0
Ixodes affinis 2 0 0
I. angustus 55 0 0
I. cookei 123 0 0
I. dentatus 48 0 7
I. marxi 26 0 0
I. muris 9 0 2
I. pacificus 1,497 14 25
I. scapularis 34,621 594 11,287
I. spinipalpis 63 0 3
Rhipicephalus sanguineus
15
0
0
Total 38,855 608 11.324

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