{"id":2467,"date":"2019-05-28T15:59:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T19:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ticks\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2019-05-28T15:59:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T19:59:07","slug":"high-prevalence-of-borrelia-miyamotoi-among-adult-blacklegged-ticks-from-white-tailed-deer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/news\/high-prevalence-of-borrelia-miyamotoi-among-adult-blacklegged-ticks-from-white-tailed-deer\/","title":{"rendered":"High Prevalence of Borrelia miyamotoi among Adult Blacklegged Ticks from White-Tailed Deer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fullwidth\">\n<p><i>February 5, 2016<\/i><\/p>\n<p>EVERYTHING comes from somewhere. But where does the blacklegged tick relapsing fever germ&nbsp;<i>Borrelia miyamotoi<\/i>&nbsp;come from? Previous studies (Scott et al. 2010 J Med Entomol) found a high proportion of wild turkeys positive for&nbsp;<i>B. miyamotoi<\/i>&nbsp;infection in TN but none of the ticks found attached to the birds were positive for infection. Extremely low rates of infection in wild mice have been reported, also&nbsp;calling into question the role of rodents as reservoir for this germ&nbsp;(Barbour et al. 2009 Am J Trop Med Hyg).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A new report&nbsp;by Han et al. (2016 Emerg Inf Dis) now shows that female blacklegged ticks removed from hunter-killed white-tailed deer in WI have a notably higher rate of&nbsp;<i>B. miyamotoi<\/i>&nbsp;infection (7.1%) than host seeking ticks in the same environment (1%). While this finding alone fails to provide conclusive proof of reservoir status, it\u2019s certainly&nbsp;a call for additional controlled transmission studies&nbsp;with white-tailed deer and immature stages of blacklegged ticks.<\/p>\n<p>Read full article on cdc.gov:&nbsp;<i><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/Are-Deer-Miyamotoi-Carriers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/eid\/article\/22\/2\/15-1218_article<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 5, 2016 EVERYTHING comes from somewhere. But where does the blacklegged tick relapsing fever germ&nbsp;Borrelia miyamotoi&nbsp;come from? Previous studies (Scott et al. 2010 J Med Entomol) found a high proportion of wild turkeys positive for&nbsp;B. miyamotoi&nbsp;infection in TN but none of the ticks found attached to the birds were positive for infection. Extremely low [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1338,"featured_media":2470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[454,457],"tags":[463],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-research-news","tag-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}