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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 2001, p. 4926-4929, Vol. 67, No. 10
0099-2240/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.10.4926-4929.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Distinct Combinations of Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato Genospecies Found in Individual Questing Ticks from Europe

Klaus Kurtenbach,1,* Simona De Michelis,1 Henna-Sisko Sewell,1 Susanne Etti,1 Stefanie M. Schäfer,1,2 Rosie Hails,2 Margarida Collares-Pereira,3 Margarida Santos-Reis,4 Klára Haninçová,5 Milan Labuda,5 Antra Bormane,6 and Michael Donaghy7

The Wellcome Trust Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease, Department of Zoology,1 and Department of Clinical Neurology,7 University of Oxford, and NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology,2 Oxford, United Kingdom; ULBL/CMDT, Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Universidade Nova de Lisboa,3 and CBA/Science Faculty, Lisbon University,4 Lisbon, Portugal; Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia5; and Ministry of Welfare of the Republic of Latvia, Riga, Latvia6

Received 27 December 2000/Accepted 8 July 2001

The genetic diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato was assessed in individual adult Ixodes ricinus ticks from Europe by direct PCR amplification of spirochetal DNA followed by genospecies-specific hybridization. Analysis of mixed infections in the ticks showed that B. garinii and B. valaisiana segregate from B. afzelii. This and previous findings suggest that host complement interacts with spirochetes in the tick, thereby playing an important role in the ecology of Lyme borreliosis.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: The Wellcome Trust Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PS, United Kingdom. Phone: 0044 (0) 1865-281547. E-mail: klaus.kurtenbach{at}ceid.ox.ac.uk.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 2001, p. 4926-4929, Vol. 67, No. 10
0099-2240/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.10.4926-4929.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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