Prevalence of Lyme disease Borrelia spp. in ticks from migratory birds on the Japanese mainland

Article Abstract:

Researchers have identified Borrelia garinii in ticks from migratory birds in Japan. This is one of the species of Borrelia that causes Lyme disease. The birds probably carried the organism to Japan from northeastern China via Korea.

Health aspects, Japan, Disease transmission, Borrelia

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Lyme disease Borrelia spp. in ticks and rodents from Northwestern China

Article Abstract:

Researchers have discovered Borrelia species in the tick Ixodes persulcatus in the Tianshan mountains in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of northwestern China. Some rodents also tested positive by molecular analysis using an internal transcribed spacer sequence.

China

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Lyme disease Borrelia species in northeastern China resemble those isolated from far eastern Russia and Japan

Article Abstract:

Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato is the causative agent for Lyme disease. In an effort to expand research on the organism, 59 B. burgdorferi sensu lato isolates from Ixodes persulcatus and Apodemus peninsulae rodents in the northeastern China were genetically characterized for species determination. This was done through restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis and reactivity with monoclonal antibodies. Isolates were found to be members of the B. garinii and B. afzelli species. Chinese isolates were also found to be similar to those from far eastern Russia and Japan.

Research, Genetic aspects, Rodents, Borrelia burgdorferi, Genetic polymorphisms

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