Detection of Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Babesia microti , Borrelia burgdorferi, Borrelia miyamotoi, and Powassan Virus in Ticks by a Multiplex Real-Time Reverse Transcription-PCR Assay

• DOI: 10.1128/msphere.00151-17
• Publication Date: 2017-04-20T00:30:26Z
• Authors: Rafal Tokarz; Teresa Tagliafierro; D. Moses Cucura; Ilia Rochlin; Stephen Sameroff; W. Ian Lipkin
• Keywords: Ixodes scapularis; Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Tick-borne disease; Multiplex

The understanding of pathogen prevalence is an important factor in the determination human risks for tick-borne diseases and can help guide diagnosis treatment. implementation our assay addresses a critical need surveillance diseases, through generation comprehensive assessment I. scapularis . Our finding high frequency ticks infected with Babesia microti Suffolk County, NY, implicates this agent as probable frequent cause non-Lyme disease area.