Isolation of Borrelia burgdorferi from saliva of the tick vector, Ixodes scapularis.

Abstract:

:A method for cultivating and isolating Lyme disease spirochetes, Borrelia burgdorferi, from the saliva of vector ticks, Ixodes scapularis (formerly known as Ixodes dammini), is described. Saliva was collected from partially engorged ticks after application of pilocarpine to induce salivation. B. burgdorferi was isolated from 8 of 14 (57%) of the saliva samples derived from ticks infected with the bacteria, as determined by direct immunofluorescent-antibody assay of tick hemolymph. A comparison of the protein profiles of the salivary isolates and a highly passaged strain (B31) showed that the salivary isolates all lacked a 22-kDa protein known to increase with continuous passage, but exhibited larger amounts of the OspA and OspB proteins than did the highly passaged B31 strain.

journal_name

J Clin Microbiol

authors

Ewing C,Scorpio A,Nelson DR,Mather TN

doi

10.1128/JCM.32.3.755-758.1994

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1994-03-01 00:00:00

pages

755-8

issue

3

eissn

0095-1137

issn

1098-660X

journal_volume

32

pub_type

杂志文章