Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato and Relapsing Fever Borrelia in Feeding Ixodes Ticks and Rodents in Sarawak, Malaysia: New Geographical Records of Borrelia yangtzensis and Borrelia miyamotoi

• Main Authors: Lau, Alice C. C., Qiu, Yongjin, Mohamed Abdallah, Mohamed Moustafa, Nakao, Ryo, Shimozuru, Michito, Onuma, Manabu, Mohd-Azlan, Jayasilan, Tsubota, Toshio
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020
• Subjects: Q Science (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/32229/1/Jayasilan.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/32229/; https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/9/10/846
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Members of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (Bbsl) complex are etiological agents of Lyme disease (LD), and Borrelia miyamotoi is one of the relapsing fever Borrelia (RFB). Despite the serological evidence of LD in Malaysia, there has been no report from Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Thus, this stud...