Borrelia burgdorferi s.l.
First record of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato antibodies in stray dogs in the Northwest Region of Parana State Brazil
... The aim of this study was to determine the occurrence of B. burgdorferi sensu lato s.l. antibodies in stray dogs of the urban area of Umuarama Town, localized in the northwest region of Parana state, Brazil. Serum ...
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Molecular characterization of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato strains isolated in the area of Belgrade, Serbia
... of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato strains isolated in ...to Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, while isolate K1 from Apodemus flavicollis is a mixture of Borrelia afzelii and ...B. ...
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Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in humans in a rural area of Paraná State, Brazil
... Of the 207 human serum samples analyzed, two (0.96%) showed positive nested-PCR results for the B. burgdorferi s.l. complex with amplicon sizes of ~230 bp. The BLAST analysis showed high sequence similarity (100%) ...
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Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in humans in a rural area of Paraná State, Brazil
... Of the 207 human serum samples analyzed, two (0.96%) showed positive nested-PCR results for the B. burgdorferi s.l. complex with amplicon sizes of ~230 bp. The BLAST analysis showed high sequence similarity (100%) ...
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First record of Borrelia burgdorferi B31 strain in Dermacentor nitens ticks in the northern region of Parana (Brazil)
... cation of B. burgdorferi s.l. DNA was performed by nested PCR targeting the 5S (rrf) 23S (rrl) intergenic spacer re- gion. For each nested PCR reaction, two sets of oligo- nucleotide sequences were used as ...
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Seroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi in occupationally exposed persons in the Belgrade area, Serbia
... for Borrelia infection is through the bite of an infected vector, the prevalence of these pathogens in ticks represents an important risk indica- tor for human populations (Radulovic et ...B. burgdorferi ...
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Persistence of Borrelia burgdorferi in rhesus macaques following antibiotic treatment of disseminated infection.
... B. burgdorferi do not grow well in the presence of monkey serum, so antibiotic concentrations in serum had to be tested with alternative reporter strains of ...m L of serum from treated animals was applied ...
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Central role of the Holliday junction helicase RuvAB in vlsE recombination and infectivity of Borrelia burgdorferi.
... Inactivation of DNA recombination and repair genes Genes putatively involved DNA recombination and repair were inactivated by transposon mediated mutagenesis as part of a transposon signature tagged mutagenesis (STM) ...
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Anaphylactoid reaction caused by sodium ceftriaxone in two horses experimentally infected by Borrelia burgdorferi
... Kilogram; L: Liter; LF: Left forelimb; LH: Left hindlimb; MCH: Mean corpuscular hemoglobin; MCHC: Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration; MCV: Mean corpuscular volume; mg: Milligram; MG: Minas Gerais; NSAID: ...
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Outer surface protein B is critical for Borrelia burgdorferi adherence and survival within Ixodes ticks.
... organism, Borrelia burgdorferi, is a microaerophilic spirochete that contains a 910-kb linear chromosome and at least 21 linear and circular plasmids ...B. burgdorferi is composed of several ...
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Freqüência de anticorpos anti-Erhlichia canis, Borrelia burgdorferi e antígenos de Dirofilaria immitis em cães na microrregião Ilhéus-Itabuna, Bahia, Brasil.
... canis, Borrelia burgdorferi and Dirofilaria immitis antigens in dogs from microrregion Ilhéus-Itabuna, State of Bahia, ...canis, Borrelia burgdorferi e antígenos de Dirofilaria immitis em cães ...
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Evaluation of a modified culture medium for Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato
... A qualitative evaluation of Borrelia growth was car- ried out using B. garinii (NE83) and B. valaisiana (NE4555) obtained from free-living I. ricinus ticks col- lected in Switzerland. The number of spirochetes ...
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Use of nonelectrolytes reveals the channel size and oligomeric constitution of the Borrelia burgdorferi P66 porin.
... P66 is an outer membrane protein of Lyme disease and relapsing fever spirochetes [1]. P66 found in the Lyme disease species Borrelia burgdorferi is well studied and exhibits dual functions. Firstly, it has ...
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MicroRNA-146a provides feedback regulation of lyme arthritis but not carditis during infection with Borrelia burgdorferi.
... determine the mRNA target most affected at the protein level by the presence or absence of miR-146a in BMDMs. Immunoblot analysis was performed on protein extracts from B6 and B6 miR- 146a 2/2 BMDMs treated for 24 hours ...
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Cinética do crescimento de Borrelia burgdorferi (Spirochaetaceae) em diferentes meios de cultivo.
... B. burgdorferi o crescimento foi bastante rápido com a adição de até 2,5 % de albumina sérica ...B. burgdorferi é mais móvel em suspensões, a qual é acentuada quando se adiciona glicose ao meio de ...B. ...
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Soroprevalência de Borrelia burgdorferi latu sensu associada à presença de carrapatos em cães de áreas rurais do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
... areas of seven towns of the Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, using an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. All dogs were also examined for the presence of ticks. From the 199 dogs, 15.58% were seropositive, with ...
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Functional analysis of the Borrelia burgdorferi bba64 gene product in murine infection via tick infestation.
... Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme borreliosis, is transmitted to humans from the bite of Ixodes ...B. burgdorferi must adapt to many environmental changes by regulating several genes, ...
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A Seventeen-Year Epidemiological Surveillance Study of Borrelia burgdorferi Infections in Two Provinces of Northern Spain
... B. burgdorferi antibodies are developed relatively late in some patients, and indeed never in ...B. burgdorferi never occurs within the first 24 h of tick attachment (indeed, 48 h may be required), removing ...
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A tick gut protein with fibronectin III domains aids Borrelia burgdorferi congregation to the gut during transmission.
... in Borrelia burden in the tick gut as seen by qRT-PCR ...epithelium-bound Borrelia from those that are not bound to the gut ...enhance Borrelia adherence to the gut ...decreased Borrelia ...
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Detailed analysis of sequence changes occurring during vlsE antigenic variation in the mouse model of Borrelia burgdorferi infection.
... value was found to increase significantly during the infection of immunocompetent C3H/HeN mice between day 7 and day 28 post infection (P ,0.0001, Figure 6). The higher number of recombination events identified at 214 ...
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