Lyme disease-a tick-borne spirochetosis?
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Lyme disease-a tick-borne spirochetosis?
A treponema-like spirochete was detected in and isolated from adult Ixodes dammini, the incriminated tick vector of Lyme disease. Causally related to the spirochetes may be long-lasting cutaneous lesions that appeared on New Zealand White rabbits 10 to 12 weeks after infected ticks fed on them. Samples of serum from patients with Lyme disease were shown by indirect immunofluorescence to contain...
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عنوان ژورنال: Science
سال: 1982
ISSN: 0036-8075,1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.7043737