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Volume 9, Number 9, September 2003

Tick-borne Relapsing Fever Caused by Borrelia hermsii, Montana

Tom G. Schwan,* Paul F. Policastro,* Zachary Miller,† Robert L. Thompson,† Todd Damrow,‡ and James E. Keirans§
*Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, USA; †Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Seattle, Washington; USA ‡Department of Public Health, State of Montana, Helena, Montana, USA; and §Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA

 
 
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Figure 2. (A) Borrelia hermsii in the blood of one patient (case 3) stained with rabbit hyperimmune serum and anti-rabbit fluorescein isothiocyanate. Scale bar = 20 mm. (B) An Ornithodoros hermsi nymph collected from the attic of the cabin. The length of the tick is 3.0 µm, excluding the legs.

 

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