Borrelia-like spirochetes recovered from ticks and small mammals collected in the Atlantic Forest Reserve, Cotia county, State of São Paulo, Brazil

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Is Abel²  G Marzagão²  Nh Yoshinari¹  Tts Schumaker² 

[1] ,Universidade de São Paulo Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Departamento de ParasitologiaSão Paulo SP ,Brasil

关键词: Ixodes spp.;    wild mammals;    borrelia-like spirochetes;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0074-02762000000500006

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Forty-four marsupials, 77 rodents and 161 ticks were captured in an Atlantic Forest Reserve in Cotia county, State of São Paulo, where human cases of Lyme disease (LD) simile were reported. Twenty-one borrelia-like spirochete isolates were recovered from the mammals' blood and rodent livers or spleens, and triturated ticks inoculated into BSK II medium. Our results suggest that the reservoirs and ticks collected may harbor borrelia-like spirochetes, some of which have an antigenic similarity with the unknown causative agent of LD simile in Brazil, and/or with North American Borrelia burgdorferi s.s.

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