Volume 9, Number 9—September 2003
Dispatch
Tick-borne Relapsing Fever Caused by Borrelia hermsii, Montana
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Figure 2. (A) Borrelia hermsii in the blood of one patient (case 3) stained with rabbit hyper-immune serum and anti-rabbit fluorescein isothiocyanate. Scale bar = 20 μm. (B) An Ornithodoros hermsi nymph collected from the attic of the cabin. The length of the tick is 3.0 mm, excluding the legs.
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