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First culture isolation of Borrelia lonestari, putative agent of southern tick-associated rash illness.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Mar 2004
Varela Andrea S, Luttrell M Page, Howerth Elizabeth W, Moore Victor A, Davidson William R, Stallknecht David E, Little Susan E
Abstract excerpt
Southern tick-associated rash illness (STARI) is a Lyme disease-like infection described in patients in the southeastern and south-central United States, where classic Lyme disease is relatively rare. STARI develops following the bite of a lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum) and is thought to be caused by infection with an "uncultivable" spirochete tentatively named Borrelia lonestari. In this study, wild lone...
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