Abstract:Borrelia miyamotoi
is a causative agent of hard tick relapsing fever, was first identified in the early 1990s, and was characterized as a human pathogen in 2011. Unlike other relapsing fever
Borrelia
species,
B. miyamotoi
spread by means of
Ixodes
ticks.
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