2017
DOI: 10.1128/aem.01087-17
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Evidence for Borrelia bavariensis Infections of Ixodes uriae within Seabird Colonies of the North Atlantic Ocean

Abstract: The first report of members of the spirochete genus Borrelia in the seabird tick, Ixodes uriae, and seabird colonies occurred during the early 1990s. Since then, Borrelia spp. have been detected in these ticks and seabird colonies around the world. To date, the primary species detected has been Borrelia garinii, with rare occurrences of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto and Borrelia lusitaniae. During our research on Borrelia and I. uriae in seabird colonies of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, we have ident… Show more

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“…In our study, two of the transcontinental B. garinii STs were indeed found in ticks feeding on birds. One of these (ST244) was found in I. uriae on a Canadian island (Munro et al, ), in questing I. ricinus in Europe and I. persulcatus in Russia (https://pubmlst.org/borrelia/), in human isolates in Germany (https://pubmlst.org/borrelia/), and in Ixodes spp. feeding in terrestrial birds in Finland and Germany (this study).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In our study, two of the transcontinental B. garinii STs were indeed found in ticks feeding on birds. One of these (ST244) was found in I. uriae on a Canadian island (Munro et al, ), in questing I. ricinus in Europe and I. persulcatus in Russia (https://pubmlst.org/borrelia/), in human isolates in Germany (https://pubmlst.org/borrelia/), and in Ixodes spp. feeding in terrestrial birds in Finland and Germany (this study).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Accordingly, B. garinii's geographic distribution ranges from Japan to France and to sea bird colonies in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres (Figure 2). B. garinii has been found in sea bird colonies in Newfoundland (Munro et al, 2017) but has not been discovered in I. scapularis dominated regions or in I. pacificus (Hamer et al, 2007;Hoen et al, 2009;Ogden et al, 2010;Mechai et al, 2013;Fedorova et al, 2014). Similarly, B. burgdorferi s.s. is able to utilize I. scapularis, I. pacificus, I. spinipalpis, and I. affinis as vectors in North America (Burgdorfer et al, 1982;Maupin et al, 1994;Clover and Lane, 1995;Maggi et al, 2010), as well as I. ricinus in Europe (Rauter and Hartung, 2005;Sertour et al, 2018), but has not been FIGURE 1 | Ixodes and Borrelia life cycle.…”
Section: Geographic Ranges Of the Lyme Borreliosis Spirochetesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…One suggestion could be that Asian B. bavariensis utilize secondary hosts besides rodents which increase effective dispersal rate. Recently, B. bavariensis DNA was found far afield of its Eurasian range in seabird associated ticks (I. uriae ) in Canada (Munro et al, 2017). As there are similarities in the structuring of Asian B. bavariensisto B. garinii from our results (low F ST , high π , AMOVA with low σ due to geography; Table 1 & 2), it could be that in rare cases B. bavariensis may successfully transmit through avian hosts although rodent adapted.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 51%