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Appl Environ Microbiol, May 1998, p. 1980-1982, Vol. 64, No. 5
0099-2240/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Diversity of European Lyme Disease Spirochetes at the Southern Margin of Their Range

Franz-Rainer Matuschka,1,2 Birte Klug,1 Thomas W. Schinkel,1 Andrew Spielman,2 and Dania Richter1,2,*

Institut für Pathologie, Virchow-Klinikum, Medizinische Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 12249 Berlin, Germany,1 and Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 021152

Received 29 October 1997/Accepted 10 March 1998

We determined whether the genospecies diversity of Lyme disease spirochetes in vector ticks questing on a subtropical island is as broad as that in Central Europe. Although spirochetes infected <1% of the ticks sampled on Madeira Island, these infections included all three genospecies implicated in human disease. Therefore, spirochetal diversity is as great at the southern margin as it is in the center of this pathogen's range.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115. Phone: (617) 432-1796. Fax: (617) 738-4914. E-mail: drichter{at}hsph.harvard.edu.

Appl Environ Microbiol, May 1998, p. 1980-1982, Vol. 64, No. 5
0099-2240/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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