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Tincup
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Unbelievable. And to think the IDSA continues to say 2-3 weeks of antibiotics and we are cured. Idiots!

https://sites.google.com/site/marylandlyme/tick-borne-diseases/borrelia-miyamotoi/multiple-organisms-in-rodents

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Jordana
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Ugh, GROSS!

Forget IDSA, what the heck are American ID docs thinking? They're not even a little curious about *any* of us.

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Brussels
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Croatia is a focus for many rodent-borne zoonosis.

Here, we report a survey of 242 rodents and small mammals, including 43 Myodes glareolus [Bank Vole], 131 Apodemus flavicollis [Yellow-necked Mouse], 53 Apodemus agrarius [Striped Field Mouse], three Apodemus sylvaticus [Wood Mouse],

six Sorex araneus [Common Shrew], four Microtus arvalis [Common Vole], one Microtus agrestis [Field Vole], and one Muscardinus avellanarius [Hazel Dormouse], collected at eight sites in Croatia over an 8-year period.

Multiplex MassTag polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used for detection of
Borrelia,
Rickettsia,
Bartonella,
Babesia,
Ehrlichia,
Anaplasma,
Francisella tularensis,
and Coxiella burnetii.

Individual PCR assays were used for detection of Leptospira,
lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus,
orthopoxviruses,
flaviviruses,
hantaviruses,
and Toxoplasma gondii.

Of the rodents,
52 (21.5%) were infected with Leptospira,
9 (3.7%) with Borrelia miyamotoi,
5 (2%) with Borrelia afzelii,

29 (12.0%) with Bartonella,
8 (3.3%) with Babesia microti,
2 (0.8%) with Ehrlichia,

4 (1.7%) with Anaplasma,
2 (0.8%) with F. tularensis,
43 (17.8%) with hantaviruses,
and 1 (0.4%) with an orthopoxvirus.

Other agents were not detected.
Multiple infections were found in 32 rodents (13.2%):

dual infections in 26 rodents (10.7%),
triple infections in four rodents (2.9%),
and quadruple infections in two rodents (0.8%).

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Poor mice, they look like us!!! [bonk]

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