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Novel Borrelia genotypes in bats from the Macaregua Cave, Colombia.

Zoonoses and public health - 1 Feb 2021

Muñoz-Leal Sebastián, Faccini-Martínez Álvaro A, Pérez-Torres Jairo, Chala-Quintero Sandra M, Herrera-Sepúlveda Maria T, Cuervo Claudia, Labruna Marcelo B

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Bats have been implicated as reservoirs of relapsing fever group spirochaetes since the beginning of the last century. Recently, bat-associated spirochaetes have been reported as human pathogens. In 1968, a spirochaete was detected in blood of the bat Natalus tumidirostris captured inside the Macaregua cave, Colombia. Data on this microorganism were never published again. The aim of this study was to evaluate the...

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PMID: 33226201
DOI: 10.1111/zph.12789

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