No evidence of Borrelia mayonii in an endemic area for Lyme borreliosis in France

BACKGROUND: Borrelia mayonii is currently the latest species belonging to the Borrelia burgdorferi (sensu lato) complex to be discovered. Interestingly it is involved in human pathology causing a high fever. We looked for its presence in post- tick bite febrile patients as well as in Ixodes ricinus...

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Autores principales: Boyer, Pierre H., De Martino, Sylvie J., Hansmann, Yves, Zilliox, Laurence, Boulanger, Nathalie, Jaulhac, Benoît
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5460422/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28583197
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-017-2212-7
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author Boyer, Pierre H.
De Martino, Sylvie J.
Hansmann, Yves
Zilliox, Laurence
Boulanger, Nathalie
Jaulhac, Benoît
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De Martino, Sylvie J.
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Zilliox, Laurence
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description BACKGROUND: Borrelia mayonii is currently the latest species belonging to the Borrelia burgdorferi (sensu lato) complex to be discovered. Interestingly it is involved in human pathology causing a high fever. We looked for its presence in post- tick bite febrile patients as well as in Ixodes ricinus ticks in an endemic area of France. RESULTS: After ensuring that our molecular technics correctly detected B. mayonii, 575 patients and 3,122 Ixodes ricinus nymphs were tested. Neither B. mayonii nor another species of the B. burgdorferi (s.l.) complex previously not reported in Europe has been identified. CONCLUSIONS: For now, B. mayonii seems to be an epiphenomenon. However, its discovery broadens the etiology of post-Ixodes bite febrile syndromes.
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spelling pubmed-54604222017-06-07 No evidence of Borrelia mayonii in an endemic area for Lyme borreliosis in France Boyer, Pierre H. De Martino, Sylvie J. Hansmann, Yves Zilliox, Laurence Boulanger, Nathalie Jaulhac, Benoît Parasit Vectors Short Report BACKGROUND: Borrelia mayonii is currently the latest species belonging to the Borrelia burgdorferi (sensu lato) complex to be discovered. Interestingly it is involved in human pathology causing a high fever. We looked for its presence in post- tick bite febrile patients as well as in Ixodes ricinus ticks in an endemic area of France. RESULTS: After ensuring that our molecular technics correctly detected B. mayonii, 575 patients and 3,122 Ixodes ricinus nymphs were tested. Neither B. mayonii nor another species of the B. burgdorferi (s.l.) complex previously not reported in Europe has been identified. CONCLUSIONS: For now, B. mayonii seems to be an epiphenomenon. However, its discovery broadens the etiology of post-Ixodes bite febrile syndromes. BioMed Central 2017-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5460422/ /pubmed/28583197 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-017-2212-7 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Boyer, Pierre H.
De Martino, Sylvie J.
Hansmann, Yves
Zilliox, Laurence
Boulanger, Nathalie
Jaulhac, Benoît
No evidence of Borrelia mayonii in an endemic area for Lyme borreliosis in France
title No evidence of Borrelia mayonii in an endemic area for Lyme borreliosis in France
title_full No evidence of Borrelia mayonii in an endemic area for Lyme borreliosis in France
title_fullStr No evidence of Borrelia mayonii in an endemic area for Lyme borreliosis in France
title_full_unstemmed No evidence of Borrelia mayonii in an endemic area for Lyme borreliosis in France
title_short No evidence of Borrelia mayonii in an endemic area for Lyme borreliosis in France
title_sort no evidence of borrelia mayonii in an endemic area for lyme borreliosis in france
topic Short Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5460422/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28583197
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-017-2212-7
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