| isolation, cultivation, and characterization of borrelia burgdorferi from rodents and ticks in the charleston area of south carolina. | twenty-eight borrelia burgdorferi isolates from the charleston, s.c., area are described. this represents the first report and characterization of the lyme disease spirochete from that state. the isolates were obtained from december 1994 through december 1995 from the tick ixodes scapularis, collected from vegetation, and from the rodents peromyscus gossypinus (cotton mouse), neotoma floridana (eastern wood rat), and sigmodon hispidus (cotton rat). all isolates were screened immunologically by i ... | 2000 | 10618074 |
| the fleas (siphonaptera) of south carolina with an assessment of their vectorial importance. | we document 25 species of fleas from south carolina including new state records for two species, the ctenophthalmids epitedia cavernicola and rhadinopsylla orama. host and other collection data, by county, are provided, including many new records amassed from 1992-1998 and some older records gleaned from the clemson university arthropod collection. one flea species, the rhopalopsyllid polygenis gwyni, is especially common and widespread in south carolina, particularly on the cotton rat (sigmodon ... | 1999 | 10672546 |
| prevalence of borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato infection among rodents and host-seeking ticks in south carolina. | tissues of rodents and host-seeking adult ticks collected in the piedmont, sandhills, coastal plain, and coastal zone of south carolina were cultured in attempts to isolate borrelia burgdorferi (johnson, schmid, hyde, steigerwalt & brenner), the etiologic agent of lyme disease. an exploratory, tree-based statistical analysis was used to identify ecological variables that were associated with spirochete infection among rodents and ticks. spirochetes were isolated from tissues of 71 rodents: 22 (6 ... | 2002 | 11931257 |
| the rare ospc allele l of borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, commonly found among samples collected in a coastal plain area of the southeastern united states, is associated with ixodes affinis ticks and local rodent hosts peromyscus gossypinus and sigmodon hispidus. | the rare ospc allele l was detected in 30% of borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto strains cultured from a tick species, ixodes affinis, and two rodent host species, peromyscus gossypinus and sigmodon hispidus, collected in a coastal plain area of georgia and south carolina, in the southeastern united states. | 2013 | 23220965 |
| genetic heterogeneity of borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in the southern united states based on restriction fragment length polymorphism and sequence analysis. | fifty-six strains of borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, isolated from ticks and vertebrate animals in missouri, south carolina, georgia, florida, and texas, were identified and characterized by pcr-restriction fragment length polymorphism (rflp) analysis of rrf (5s)-rrl (23s) intergenic spacer amplicons. a total of 241 to 258 bp of intergenic spacers between tandemly duplicated rrf (5s) and rrl (23s) was amplified by pcr. msei and drai restriction fragment polymorphisms were used to analyze these ... | 2001 | 11427560 |