title: Detection of a new Borrelia species in ticks taken from cattle in Southwest Ethiopia.
abstract: We collected 284 ticks in Ethiopia (109 Amblyomma cohaerens, 173 Rhipicephalus decoloratus, and 2 Rhipicephalus praetextatus). We found no rickettsiae and bartonellae. In 7.3% of the A. cohaerens, we found a Borrelia sp. that may represent a new species distant from both relapsing fever group and Lyme borreliae.
authors: Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes: URMITE CNRS-IRD 198 UMR 6236; a Université de la Méditerranée, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille, France.
authors: Oleg
authors: O
authors: Mediannikov
authors: Alemseged
authors: A
authors: Abdissa
authors: Cristina
authors: C
authors: Socolovschi
authors: Georges
authors: G
authors: Diatta
authors: Jean-François
authors: JF
authors: Trape
authors: Didier
authors: D
authors: Raoult
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001096:Arachnid Vectors / Q000382:microbiology*; D001898:Borrelia / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D001899:Borrelia Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000635:transmission; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000469:parasitology; D005002:Ethiopia / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D026863:Ixodidae / Q000382:microbiology*; D008193:Lyme Disease / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012061:Relapsing Fever / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission; D048494:Rhipicephalus / Q000382:microbiology; D013984:Tick Infestations / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000662:veterinary*; D013987:Ticks; D015047:Zoonoses