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Lähettäjä: Soijuv Lähetetty: 30.12.2004 11:29

Borrelia spielmani:


Borreliosemagazin http://www.borreliose magazin.de/cms

http://www.borreliose-magazin.de/cms/mo ... cle&sid=23
Frankfurt general newspaper, 15,12,2004, NR. 293/page 38
Wednesday, 15.Dezember
New research results and studies

Correctly possierlich - borrelia spielmani - the name of a new Borrelienart, which was discovered by the Parasitologen team around Professor Dr. Franz Franz-Rainer Matuschka, Charité Berlin, sounds.

Under the designation the Borrelie found in a Netherlands patient already strewed A14S before five years suspicion on a new species. One found it in three-landhits a corner to Germany, France and Switzerland, in the elsaessischen Petite in such a way specified Camargue. Also the natural landlords are exposed. The Haselmaus concerns, in Central Europe of common rodents and in exceptions. "spielmani" after that Zeckenfor Andrew Spielman,
Harvard University of, was designated the USA.
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http://aem.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/70/11/6414
Articles by Richter, D.
Articles by Matuschka, F.-R.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, November 2004, p. 6414-6419, Vol. 70, No. 11

Relationships of a Novel Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia spielmani sp.nov., with Its Hosts in Central Europe
Dania Richter,* Daniela B. Schlee, Rainer Allgöwer, and Franz-Rainer Matuschka
Abteilung Parasitologie, Institut für Pathologie, Charité,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

To determine whether the pathogenic variant of Lyme disease spirochetes, isolate A14S, is perpetuated in a particular reservoir-vector relationship, we screened vector ticks in various Central European sites for a related spirochete and determined its host association. A14S-like spirochetes infect numerous questing ticks in the Petite Camargue Alsacienne (PC). They frequently infect dormice, but no mice or voles. Garden dormice appear to be better reservoir hosts for A14S-like spirochetes than for Borrelia afzelii, because these spirochetes are retained longer and infect ticks more readily.

Spirochetes associated with garden dormice in the PC site form a homologous entity with those isolated from a human patient in The Netherlands. Its unique biological relationship together with previous genetic characterization justifies designating this dormouse-associated genospecies as a distinct entity. Garden dormice serve as the main reservoir hosts of a novel genospecies, Borrelia spielmani sp. nov., one of several that cause Lyme disease in people.

Corresponding author. Mailing address: Abteilung Parasitologie, Institut für Pathologie, Charité, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Malteserstraße 74-100, 12249 Berlin, Germany. Phone: 49 30 838 70 372. Fax: 49 30 776 2085.

E-mail: drichter@charite.de.