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Borrelia B.  | Other Borrelia | Babesia | Bartonella | Ehrlichiosis | Mycoplasmas

Borrelia Burgdorferi

Burkott et al (1999) Isolation of Borrelia in Oregon Mice and Ticks Federal and State Joint Study summary of Lyme disease in Oregon.


Mukharji J et al (1990)  Lyme carditis. Severe conduction disorder Summary Missouri Medicine Feb;87(2):86-8


Burgdorfer W, (1985) The western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus: a vector of Borrelia burgdorferi    Am J Trop Med Hyg. Sep;34(5):925-30.

"To determine the significance of the western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus, as a vector of the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, a tick/spirochete survey was conducted in northern California and southwestern Oregon from 1982 to 1984"


   

Other Borrelia species

NM Ras et al (1996) Phylogenesis of Relapsing Fever Borrelia spp. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology p. 859–865 Vol. 46, No. 4


DAVIS GE (1995) Relapsing fever spirochetes: an aberrant strain of Borrelia parkeri from Oregon.Exp Parasitol.Vol Mar;4(2):100-6.

"In O. turicata, which was carrying B. turicatae, and in O. parkeri, which was carrying the Oregon spirochete, the spirochetes were found regularly in the salivary glands."
 


Babesia (Microtti and WA-1 strains)

Bartonella Henslea

Ehrlichiosis

JS Dumler et al (2001) Reorganization of genera in the families Rickettsiaceae and Anaplasmataceae in the order Rickettsiales: International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, Vol 51, 2145-2165

Mycoplasma Infections (tick associated)

Harold Neimark et al (2005) Phylogenetic analysis and description of Eperythrozoon coccoides, proposal to transfer to the genus Mycoplasma as Mycoplasma coccoides. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol Vol 55, 1385-1391; DOI  10.1099/ijs.0.63437-0


Tully et al (2005) Spiroplasma ixodetis sp. nov., a New Species from Ixodes pacificus Ticks Collected in Oregon International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology, Vol 45, 23-28,

 "Eight strains of mollicutes were isolated from pooled suspensions prepared from western black-legged ticks (Ixodes pacificus) collected in Oregon. "


Brown , J (2003) Correlation of mollicutes and their viruses with multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating diseases  Medical Hypotheses Volume 60, Issue 2

 

 

   

 

 

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