Tick surveillance for Borrelia miyamotoi and phylogenetic analysis of isolates in Mongolia and Japan

• Published in: Ticks and tick-borne diseases Vol. 8; no. 6; pp. 850 - 857
• Main Authors: Iwabu-Itoh, Yukie, Bazartseren, Boldbaatar, Naranbaatar, Oyunnomin, Yondonjamts, Enkhmandakh, Furuno, Kiwa, Lee, Kyunglee, Sato, Kozue, Kawabata, Hiroki, Takada, Nobuhiro, Andoh, Masako, Kajita, Hiroko, Oikawa, Yosaburo, Nakao, Minoru, Ohnishi, Makoto, Watarai, Masahisa, Shimoda, Hiroshi, Maeda, Ken, Takano, Ai
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands 01.10.2017
• Subjects: Animals; Borrelia - classification; Borrelia - genetics; Borrelia - isolation & purification; Borrelia miyamotoi; genetic analysis; Genetic Variation; humans; Ixodes - microbiology; Ixodes persulcatus; Japan; Mongolia; monitoring; multilocus sequence typing; Phylogeny; Population Surveillance; Sequence Analysis, DNA; tick-borne diseases; ticks; Mongolia; Japan; Mongolia; Ixodes persulcatus; Japan; Ixodes ovatus

Borrelia miyamotoi, recently recognized as a human pathogenic spirochete, was isolated from Ixodes persulcatus and I. ovatus in northern Mongolia and Honshu Island, a major island in Japan. Although no human B. miyamotoi infections have been reported in Mongolia, the prevalence of B. miyamotoi in ti...