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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2014

DNA sequencing diagnosis of off-season spirochetemia with low bacterial density in Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia miyamotoi infections.

Sin Hang Lee, Jessica S Vigliotti, Veronica S Vigliotti, William Jones, Thomas A Moorcroft, Katherine Lantsman

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sin Hang LeeDepartment of Pathology, Milford Hospital, 300 Seaside Ave., Milford, CT 06460, USA. shlee01@snet.net.
Jessica S VigliottiDepartment of Pathology, Milford Hospital, 300 Seaside Ave., Milford, CT 06460, USA. jessvigs@yahoo.com.
Veronica S VigliottiDepartment of Pathology, Milford Hospital, 300 Seaside Ave., Milford, CT 06460, USA. ronnie313vig@yahoo.com.
William JonesDepartment of Pathology, Milford Hospital, 300 Seaside Ave., Milford, CT 06460, USA. will.jones@milfordhospital.org.
Thomas A MoorcroftOrigins of Health, LLC, 279 New Britain Road Berlin, CT 06037, USA. dr_tom@originsofhealth.com.
Katherine LantsmanMy Path Medical, 20 Park Plaza, 804, Boston, MA 02116, USA. klantsman@mypathmedical.com.
Milford Hospital · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A highly conserved 357-bp segment of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene (16S rDNA) of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and the correspondent 358-bp segment of the Borrelia miyamotoi gene were amplified by a single pair of nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers for detection, and the amplicons were used as the templates for direct Sanger DNA sequencing. Reliable molecular diagnosis of these borreliae was confirmed by sequence alignment analysis of the hypervariable regions of the PCR amplicon, using the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) provided by the GenBank. This methodology can detect and confirm B. burgdorferi and B. miyamotoi in blood samples of patients with off-season spirochetemia of low bacterial density. We found four B. miyamotoi infections among 14 patients with spirochetemia, including one patient co-infected by both B. miyamotoi and B. burgdorferi in a winter month when human exposure to tick bites is very limited in the Northeast of the U.S.A. We conclude that sensitive and reliable tests for these two Borrelia species should be implemented in the microbiology laboratory of hospitals located in the disease-endemic areas, for timely diagnosis and appropriate treatment of the patients at an early stage of the infection to prevent potential tissue damages.

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AdultAgedBacterial LoadBase SequenceBorrelia burgdorferiChildFemaleHumansLyme DiseaseMaleMiddle AgedMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesMolecular Sequence DataPolymerase Chain ReactionRNA, Ribosomal, 16SSequence Analysis, DNARNA, Ribosomal, 16S

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PMID24968274
PMCPMC4139787
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