| 'candidatus borrelia texasensis', from the american dog tick dermacentor variabilis. | txw-1, a borrelia strain isolated in march 1998 from an adult male dermacentor variabilis tick feeding on a coyote from webb county, texas, usa, was characterized by using randomly amplified polymorphic dna (rapd) analysis, rflp and sequence analysis of flab and rrs (16s rrna gene), dna-dna hybridization analysis, sds-page and western blotting with mabs. it shows different banding patterns in rflp analysis of flab and forms distinct branches in phylogenetic analysis derived from flab and rrs gen ... | 2005 | 15774644 |
| an interstate outbreak of tick-borne relapsing fever among vacationers at a rocky mountain cabin. | in july 1995, an outbreak of acute febrile illness affected 11 (48%) of 23 family members from nebraska and kansas who had vacationed at a colorado cabin in june. similar symptoms were identified among five (17%) of 30 additional persons from nebraska, kansas, florida, and texas who had vacationed at the same cabin. symptoms suggested tick-borne relapsing fever (tbrf). although no spirochetes were detected in available blood smears from five case-patients, borrelia hermsii was cultured from the ... | 1998 | 9660457 |