| a case of canine borreliosis in iran caused by borrelia persica. | tick-borne relapsing fever is an endemic disease in iran, with most cases attributed to infection by borrelia persica, which is transmitted by ornithodoros tholozani soft ticks. here, we report spirochetemia in blood of a puppy residing in tehran, iran. the causative species was identified by use of highly discriminative igs sequencing; the 489 bp igs sequence obtained in our study showed 99% identity (100% coverage) when compared with b. persica sequences derived from clinical cases or from o. ... | 2016 | 26776536 |