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

Figure 1. Borrelia hermsii in a thin smear of mouse blood stained with Wright-Giemsa stain and visualized with oil immersion bright-field microscopy (X600) for the confirmation of infection with relapsing fever spirochetes in humans and other animals. Scale bar = 20 mm.

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