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Lyme disease spirochetes in ticks from northeastern China.
The Journal of parasitology - 1 Jun 1998
Takada N, Ishiguro F, Fujita H, Wang H P, Wang J C, Masuzawa T
Abstract excerpt
During May 1996, field surveys on Lyme disease spirochetes were conducted in Beijing, Shenyang, Fushun, and Inner Mongolia in northeastern China. The ticks collected consisted of 3 genera and 12 species. Of these, Ixodes persulcatus was dominant in sun-exposed vegetation in forests in Inner Mongolia; 57 Borrelia strains (55/123 unfed adults and 2/5 immature stages fed on a rodent) were obtained from this tick by...
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