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Posted by seibertneurolyme (Member # 6416) on :

and in Germany, Switzerland and the Czech Republic ...

Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis

http://tinyurl.com/6ur4mx7

note - Found in 10% of ticks in Sweden!

Bea Seibert

Posted by Sammi (Member # 110) on :

Bea, thanks for posting this!

Posted by Brussels (Member # 13480) on :

http://jcm.asm.org/content/48/7/2630.full

Geeee...

Posted by Brussels (Member # 13480) on :

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20220155

Does this mean this pathogen is already in the USA too?? Anyone knows?

It can kill, it causes blood to coagulate...

Posted by seibertneurolyme (Member # 6416) on :

Brussels,

The article in pubmed is from a Swedish journal.

Do not think this pathogen has been found in the U.S. -- but then probably no one has been looking.

Clongen lab has found some as yet unidentified ehrlichia/anaplasma species in several patients -- but no idea if it could be the same pathogen.

Bea Seibert

Posted by ChuckG (Member # 19093) on :

Journal article

Note date: IJSEM December 2008 vol. 58 no. 12 2794-2798

Note location: University of Georgia, Athens, GA

quote:
Recently, a novel ehrlichial organism was isolated from a raccoon (Procyon lotor) and the isolate (RAC413) was infectious to two na�ve raccoons but not laboratory mice, rats or rabbits.

...confirmed that the novel ehrlichial organism was a member of the family Anaplasmataceae and was most closely related to, but distinct from, 'Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis'

Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :

Naive raccoons?? Or is it native raccoons??

[lol]

Posted by ChuckG (Member # 19093) on :

na�ve

quote:
Six, 10-week-old raccoons (RAC413, RAC414, RAC974, RAC975 and two negative controls) were acquired from a commercial source

Posted by marypart (Member # 27012) on :

"naive"

It means that they gave the isolate to two uninfected (naive) raccoons and they got the infection.

They did the same with mice,rats and rabbits, but they didn't catch the infection.

Posted by ChuckG (Member # 19093) on :

While reading another paper just now:

quote:
Spirochetes advance around and between epithelial cells toward the basement membrane. (A�C) Representative silver-stained paraffin sections and (D�F) FM4-64�labeled cryosections of midguts isolated from Bb914-infected nymphs at (A and D) 48 and (B, C, E, and F) 72 hours after placement on naive C3H/HeJ mice .