Publication Date:
1982-06-18
Description:
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 antibodies to this agent. It is suggested that the newly discovered spirochete is involved in the etiology of Lyme disease.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Burgdorfer, W -- Barbour, A G -- Hayes, S F -- Benach, J L -- Grunwaldt, E -- Davis, J P -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1982 Jun 18;216(4552):1317-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7043737" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Arachnid Vectors/*microbiology
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Arthritis, Infectious/*microbiology
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Digestive System/microbiology
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Fluorescent Antibody Technique
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Humans
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Microscopy, Electron
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Microvilli/microbiology/ultrastructure
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Rabbits
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Seasons
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Spirochaetales/ultrastructure
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Spirochaetales Infections/*microbiology
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Ticks/*microbiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
