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The manifestation of Borrelia as Lyme disease in this region is presently unknown, but evidence indicates that the disease may occur in humans in sub-Saharan Africa. The abundance of hosts and tick vectors would favor the occurrence of the infection in Africa. [34] In East Africa, two cases of Lyme disease have been reported in Kenya. [35]
Eight are known to cause Lyme disease or Borreliosis. [6] The major Borrelia species causing Lyme disease are Borrelia burgdorferi, Borrelia afzelii, and Borrelia garinii. [23] All species that cause Lyme disease are referred to collectively as B. burgdorferi sensu lato, [10] while B. burgdorferi itself is specified as B. burgdorferi sensu stricto.
Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is a tick-borne disease caused by species of Borrelia bacteria, transmitted by blood-feeding ticks in the genus Ixodes. [4] [9] [10] The most common sign of infection is an expanding red rash, known as erythema migrans (EM), which appears at the site of the tick bite about a week afterwards. [1]
Borrelia burgdorferi is a bacterial species of the spirochete class in the genus Borrelia, and is one of the causative agents of Lyme disease in humans. [1] [2] Along with a few similar genospecies, some of which also cause Lyme disease, it makes up the species complex of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato.
Brian Stevenson, a microbiology professor at the University of Kentucky, studies Borrelia burgdorferi, the spiral-shaped bacterium that causes Lyme disease, which is spread by ticks.
“Lyme disease can be a challenging diagnosis,” Daniel Cameron, M.D., M.P.H., an internist and clinical epidemiologist practicing in Mt. Kisco, New York who specializes in the treatment of Lyme ...
Borrelia miyamotoi is a bacterium of the spirochete phylum in the genus Borrelia.A zoonotic organism, B. miyamotoi can infect humans through the bite of several species of hard-shell Ixodes ticks, the same kind of ticks that spread B. burgdorferi, the causative bacterium of Lyme disease.
Burgdorfer was born on June 27, 1925, in Basel, Switzerland. [2] [3] He earned his Ph.D. in zoology, parasitology, and bacteriology from the University of Basel and the Swiss Tropical Institute in Basel.
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