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  • Title: [The reservoir hosts and vectors of Borrelia--the causative organisms of ixodid tick-borne borrelioses in Russia].
    Author: Korenberg EI, Gorelova NB, Postic D, Kovalevskiĭ IuV, Baranton G, Vorob'eva NN.
    Journal: Zh Mikrobiol Epidemiol Immunobiol; 1997; (6):36-8. PubMed ID: 9460862.
    Abstract:
    327 Borrelia isolates from ixodid ticks of 3 species from 12 major administrative territories of Russia (from Leningrad Province in the west to Sakhalin Province in the east), as well as from forest myomorph rodents of 6 species and from skin biopsies of borreliosis patents, were identified by the PRC and RFLP methods. B. afzelii, B. garinii and B. garinii NT29 were shown to be widespread in Russia. No other Borrelia genospecies were found. The main vectors of B. afzelii and B. garinii were ixodid ticks Ixodes persulcatus and I.ricinus and their main reservoir hosts were forest myomorph rodents. In natural foci Borrelia mixed infection was observed among reservoir hosts and vectors. This determines the possibility and considerable probability of human infection caused by several Borrelia genospecies simultaneously.
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