Thirteen (1.7%) patients were confirmed as positive for B. miyamotoi. Patients were mainly 50-60-years old and had a history of tick contact. They presented flu-like symptoms, including fever, headache, poor spirit, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, hypodynamic, chest distress, and myalgia. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the B. miyamotoi in the present study belonged to the Siberian type, distinct from European and American types and the I. ovatus isolate from Japan.
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First detection of Borrelia miyamotoi infections in ticks and humans
from the northeast of Inner Mongolia, China - PubMed
Borrelia
miyamotoi is a relapsing fever spirochete that can cause chills,
fatigue, headache, myalgia, arthralgia, and even meningitis, damaging
human health. B. miyamotoi has a wide distribution since its discovery
in in Ixodes persulcatus in 1994. The human B. miyamotoi disease was
first described....
