Borrelia miyamotoi infection in Apodemus spp. mice populating an urban habitat (Warsaw, Poland)

Etymologia: Borrelia miyamotoi

Human Borrelia miyamotoi infection in California: Serodiagnosis is complicated by multiple endemic Borrelia species

To determine whether human Borrelia miyamotoi infection occurs in the far-western United States, we tested archived sera from northwestern California residents for antibodies to this emerging relapsing fever spirochete. These residents frequently were exposed to I. pacificus ticks in a region where B. miyamotoi tick infection has been reported. We used a two-step B. miyamotoi rGlpQ assay and a ...

Chromosome Sequence of Borrelia miyamotoi, an Uncultivable Tick-Borne Agent of Human Infection

Borrelia miyamotoi is a newly recognized agent of human disease. B. miyamotoi strain LB-2001, an isolate from the tick Ixodes scapularis, was propagated in mice. The sequence of the chromosome was determined by next-generation sequencing of DNA isolated from whole blood. The sequence established that B. miyamotoi is a relapsing fever group species.

Borrelia miyamotoi: a lesson in disease discovery.

Recognition of novel infectious diseases has historically followed a prescribed course, which starts by defining a clinical syndrome. A prototypical example was the discovery of Lyme disease during the 1970s, which began with the description of epidemic oligoarticular arthritis (1), eventually followed by identification of the causative agent (2). In this issue, Chowdri and colleagues (3) contr...

Borrelia miyamotoi–Associated Neuroborreliosis in Immunocompromised Person

Borrelia miyamotoi is a newly recognized human pathogen in the relapsing fever group of spirochetes. We investigated a case of B. miyamotoi infection of the central nervous system resembling B. burgdorferi-induced Lyme neuroborreliosis and determined that this emergent agent of central nervous system infection can be diagnosed with existing methods.