Abstract
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 |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1740-1743 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Emerging Infectious Diseases |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 11 |
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| State | Published - Nov 2006 |