Molecular characterization of tickborne relapsing fever Borrelia, Israel

Marc Victor Assous; Amos Wilamowski; Herve Bercovier; Esther Marva

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Molecular characterization of tickborne relapsing fever Borrelia, Israel

Marc Victor Assous^*, Amos Wilamowski, Herve Bercovier, Esther Marva

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Blood samples from 18 tickborne relapsing fever (TBRF) patients and Ornithodoros tholozani specimens were tested with a Borrelia flaB-PCR. Results were positive for all patients and 2%-40% of ticks. A 7-amino acid gap characterized all 9 sequenced flagellin gene amplicons. By phylogenetic analysis, Israel TBRF Borrelia sequences clustered separately from American and African groups.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1740-1743
Number of pages	4
Journal	Emerging Infectious Diseases
Volume	12
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1211.060715
State	Published - Nov 2006

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