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Volume 9, Number 9—September 2003
Dispatch

Tick-borne Relapsing Fever Caused by Borrelia hermsii, Montana

Tom G. Schwan*Comments to Author , Paul F. Policastro*, Zachary Miller†, Robert L. Thompson†, Todd Damrow‡, and James E. Keirans§
Author affiliations: *Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, USA; †Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Seattle, Washington, USA; ‡Department of Public Health, State of Montana, Helena, Montana, USA; §Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA

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Figure 1

Borrelia hermsii in a thin smear of mouse blood stained with Wright-Giemsa stain and visualized with oil immersion bright-field microscopy (X600) for the confirmation of infection with relapsing fever spirochetes in humans and other animals. Scale bar = 20 μm.

Figure 1. Borrelia hermsii in a thin smear of mouse blood stained with Wright-Giemsa stain and visualized with oil immersion bright-field microscopy (X600) for the confirmation of infection with relapsing fever spirochetes in humans and other animals. Scale bar = 20 μm.

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