[survey on tick vectors of lyme disease spirochetes in china]. | since 1987 we have been studying on lyme disease in china. there were 71 isolates of borrelia burgdorferi recovered from six species of ticks including ixodes persulcatus, ixodes granulatus, ixodes rangtangensis, haemaphysalis concinna. haemaphysalis bispinosa and haemaphysalis longicornis, and 55 isolates from ixodes persulcatus collected from heilongjiang, jilin, liaoning, nei-monggol, hebei and xinjiang region (province). ixodes persulcarus is the dominant species accounted for more than 80% ... | 1992 | 1300244 |
detection of dna closely related to 'candidatus rickettsia principis' in haemaphysalis danieli recovered from cattle in xinjiang uygur autonomous region area, china. | tick dna samples from cattle in xinjiang uygur autonomous region area, china, were examined for rickettsia infection by citrate synthase gene-based pcr and sequencing. four positive samples were detected from haemaphysalis danieli and high levels of similarity were found with recently detected 'candidatus rickettsia principis.' | 2007 | 17052853 |