Borrelia duttonii-like spirochetes parasitizec Meriones persicus in East Azerbaijan Province of Iran
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Ghasemi, A., Naddaf, S. R., Mahmoudi, A., Rohani, M., Naeimi, S., Mordadi, A., Cutler, S. and Mostafavi, E. 2021. Borrelia duttonii-like spirochetes parasitizec Meriones persicus in East Azerbaijan Province of Iran. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 12 (Art. 101825). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2021.101825
Authors | Ghasemi, A., Naddaf, S. R., Mahmoudi, A., Rohani, M., Naeimi, S., Mordadi, A., Cutler, S. and Mostafavi, E. |
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Abstract | Borrelia persica and B. microti/microti-like borreliae have been established as causative agents of relapsing fever in Iran. However, the epidemiology of previously described tickborne relapsing fever (TBRF) species Borrelia balthazardi and Borrelia latyschewii (latychevi) has remained elusive for many years. We investigated Borrelia infection in various rodents and small mammals in the TBRF endemic East Azerbaijan Province, northwestern Iran, where B. perisca and B. balthazardi might coexist. Among trapped rodents (n=210), a 16S real-time PCR detected Borrelia DNA in 11 Meriones persicus. Multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) using six different loci, including four coding regions (flaB, glpQ, groEL, p66) and two non-coding (rrs, IGS) followed by phylogeny revealed considerable sequence identity between the borreliae detected, B. microti, and East African Borrelia duttonii, and Borrelia recurrentis. Our results indicate that B. microti and microti-like borreliae, including the specimens characterized previously in the south of Iran and the present study, are different ecotypes of B. duttonii, i.e., a single species/entity or descendants of a recent common ancestor. Our findings also suggest that the species we had long coined as B. balthazardi and the microti-like spirochetes detected herein might be the same. |
Journal | Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases |
Journal citation | 12 (Art. 101825) |
ISSN | 1877-959X |
Year | 2021 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Accepted author manuscript | License File Access Level Anyone |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2021.101825 |
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Online | 04 Sep 2021 |
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Accepted | 17 Aug 2021 |
Deposited | 15 Sep 2021 |
Copyright holder | © 2021 Elsevier |
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