Study suggests expanded range for emerging tick-borne disease
February 16, 2018 by Elisabeth Reitman, Yale University
Human cases of Borrelia miyamotoi, a tick-borne infection with some similarities to Lyme disease, were discovered in the eastern United States less than a decade ago. Now new research led by the Yale School of Public Health strongly suggests that the pathogen's geographic range is bicoastal, far larger than previously believed.
A scientific team headed by Peter Krause, M.D., and including Erol Fikrig, M.D., and Sukanya Narasimhan, Ph.D., both of the Yale School of Medicine, and Robert Lane, Ph.D. of the University of California, Berkeley, tested archived sera and found evidence that the disease exists in a Lyme disease endemic community in northern California. A previous study by Krause and colleagues published last year found evidence that the disease exists in Manitoba, Canada.
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