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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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(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.

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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