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Pinelady
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/vbz.2009.0036

Thank You Rick at lymeinfo at Yahoo Groups as always.

Assessment of Polymicrobial Infections in Ticks in New York State

Rafal Tokarz, Komal Jain, Ashlee Bennett, Thomas Briese, W. Ian Lipkin.
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, Published online ahead of print
September 2, 2009.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/vbz.2009.0036

Abstract

Ixodes scapularis ticks are clinically important hematophagous vectors.

A single tick bite can lead to a polymicrobial infection.

We determined the prevalence of polymicrobial infection with Borrelia

burgdorferi, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Babesia microti, Borrelia

miyamotoi, and Powassan virus in

286 adult ticks from the two counties

in New York State where Lyme disease is endemic, utilizing a MassTag

multiplex polymerase chain reaction assay.

Seventy-one percent of the ticks harbored at least one organism;

30% had
a polymicrobial infection.

Infections with three microbes were detected
in 5% of the ticks.

One tick was infected with four organisms.

Our results show that coinfection is a frequent occurrence in ticks in

the two counties surveyed.
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While this is New Yorks survey I would say if

other states followed suit and tested the same way it would be found in their back yards too.

[ 09-05-2009, 08:28 PM: Message edited by: Pinelady ]

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Vermont_Lymie
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Thanks for posting this. Important news.

Too bad that a free copy of the full paper is not accessible.

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Pinelady
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Very important up.

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Suspected Lyme 07 Test neg One band migrating in IgG region
unable to identify.Igenex Jan.09IFA titer 1:40 IND
IgM neg pos
31 +++ 34 IND 39 IND 41 IND 83-93 +
DX:Neuroborreliosis

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catskillmamala
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Does Borrelia miyamotoi have different symptoms? More recurring or what?

So thrilled to see this study for 1 county away from me. And our leading ID duck told me (staring right at my positive Babs FISH results) "we don't have babesia here and unless you went to Shelter Island you can't have that."

Yeah, and birds don't fly. I'm gonna send him a Nice Letter with this Study.

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Pinelady
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http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/45/4/804.pdf

A good article on it but it is being found all the way to CA.

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Suspected Lyme 07 Test neg One band migrating in IgG region
unable to identify.Igenex Jan.09IFA titer 1:40 IND
IgM neg pos
31 +++ 34 IND 39 IND 41 IND 83-93 +
DX:Neuroborreliosis

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Pinelady
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I thought this was a good article on the different species.
http://www.ajtmh.org/cgi/reprint/77/6/1124.pdf

Lyme borreliosis1 is the most prevalent tick-borne zoonotic

disease in Europe, North America, and the Far Eastern countries.

2,3 Spirochetes belonging to the Lyme disease group are

classified into 12 species. Borrelia burgdorferi4 is found in

North America and Europe and is pathogenic to humans; B.

garinii5 and B. afzelii6 are found in Europe and east Asian

countries and are pathogenic to humans7; B. valaisiana,8,9 B.

lusitaniae,10 and B. spielmanii11,12 are found in Ixodes ricinus

in Europe7; B. japonica, B. tanukii, and B. turdi are found in

I. ovatus, I. tanuki, and I. turdus, respectively, in Japan13,14; B.

andersonii is found in I. dentatus15; B. bissettii16 is found in I.

spinipalpis in North America; and B. sinica is found in I.

ovatus in China.17

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Suspected Lyme 07 Test neg One band migrating in IgG region
unable to identify.Igenex Jan.09IFA titer 1:40 IND
IgM neg pos
31 +++ 34 IND 39 IND 41 IND 83-93 +
DX:Neuroborreliosis

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