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Margos G, Marosevic D, Cutler S, Derdakova M, Diuk-Wasser M, Emler S, Fish D, Gray J, Hunfeldt KP, Jaulhac B, Kahl O, Kovalev S, Kraiczy P, Lane RS, Lienhard R, Lindgren PE, Ogden N, Ornstein K, Rupprecht T, Schwartz I, Sing A, Straubinger RK, Strle F, Voordouw M, Rizzoli A, Stevenson B, Fingerle V. There is inadequate evidence to support the division of the genus Borrelia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1081-1084. [PMID: 27930271 DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.001717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- G Margos
- National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Veterinärstr. 2, 85764 Oberschleißheim, Germany
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- National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Veterinärstr. 2, 85764 Oberschleißheim, Germany
- European Programme for Public Health Microbiology Training, European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden
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- School of Health Sport and Bioscience, University of East London, Water Lane, London, UK
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- Department of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, 1200 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA
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- SmartGene Services SARL, Innovation Park, Building C, EPFL-Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Yale School of Public Health, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Emeritus Professor of Animal Parasitology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Members of the Steering Committee of the ESCMID Study Group for Borrelia (ESGBOR)
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- Members of the Steering Committee of the ESCMID Study Group for Borrelia (ESGBOR)
- Zentralinstitut für Labormedizin, Mikrobiologie and Krankenhaushygiene, Krankenhaus Nordwest, Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Steinbacher Hohl 2-26, D-60488 Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Members of the Steering Committee of the ESCMID Study Group for Borrelia (ESGBOR)
- Laboratoire de Bactériologie, CNR des Borrelia, Plateau Technique de Microbiologie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg et Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg, 1 rue Koeberlé, Strasbourg 67000, France
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- Members of the Steering Committee of the ESCMID Study Group for Borrelia (ESGBOR)
- tick-radar GmbH, Haderslebener Str. 9, Berlin 12163, Germany
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- Molecular Genetics Lab (www.dnk-ural.ru) Biology Department, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N.Yeltsin, Lenin Avenue, Yekaterinburg 620000, Russia
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital Frankfurt, Paul-Ehrlich-Str, Frankfurt/Main 40, 60596, Germany
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- Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California Berkeley, 130 Mulford Hall, Berkeley CA 94720, California, USA
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- Borrelia Laboratory for the National Reference Centre of Tick Diseases (CNRT/ NRZK), ADMed Microbiology, La Chaux-de-Fonds 2303, Switzerland
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- Members of the Steering Committee of the ESCMID Study Group for Borrelia (ESGBOR)
- Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Director, Public Health Risk Sciences Division, National Microbiology Laboratory, @ Saint-Hyacinthe and Guelph, Public Health Agency of Canada, Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada
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- Members of the Steering Committee of the ESCMID Study Group for Borrelia (ESGBOR)
- Clinical and Experimental Infectious Medicine Section, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden
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- Members of the Steering Committee of the ESCMID Study Group for Borrelia (ESGBOR)
- Klinikum Dachau, Abt. Neurology u. Schlafmedizinisches Zentrum, Krankenhausstr. 15, 8521 Dachau, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, New York Medical College, Basic Sciences Building, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA
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- National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Veterinärstr. 2, 85764 Oberschleißheim, Germany
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- Chair Bacteriology and Mykology, Department of Veterinary Science, Veterinary Faculty, LMU Munich, Veterinärstraße, München 13, 80539, Gemany
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- Members of the Steering Committee of the ESCMID Study Group for Borrelia (ESGBOR)
- Department of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Université de Neuchâtel, Institut de Biologie, Laboratoire d'Ecologie et Evolution des Parasites, Rue Emile-Argand 11, CH-2000, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Fondazione Edmund Mach, Research and Innovation Centre, Via Mach, 1, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, MS421 Chandler Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky, 40536-0298, USA
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- National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Veterinärstr. 2, 85764 Oberschleißheim, Germany
- Members of the Steering Committee of the ESCMID Study Group for Borrelia (ESGBOR)
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Harymann M, Ogden N, Lindsay R, Lawless V, Deilgat M, Sternthal S. Summary of the Public Health Agency of Canada's Action Plan on Lyme Disease. Can Commun Dis Rep 2014; 40:88-90. [PMID: 29769887 PMCID: PMC5864454 DOI: 10.14745/ccdr.v40i05a03] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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BACKGROUND Lyme disease is an emerging infectious disease in Canada that requires a comprehensive approach to prevention and control. It is a serious illness caused by a bacterium transmitted by certain types of ticks. The risk of Lyme disease currently exists in southern parts of British Columbia and Manitoba, southern and eastern Ontario, southern Quebec and New Brunswick, and in some locations in Nova Scotia. OBJECTIVE To highlight the Public Health Agency of Canada's Action Plan on Lyme Disease, which aims to mitigate the risks to Canadians posed by Lyme disease through concrete activities being undertaken jointly with the provinces, territories, and various stakeholders. APPROACH A multidisciplinary approach was used to assess the evidence on Lyme disease in Canada, analyze stakeholder concerns and evaluate what was currently available to inform public health professionals and the public. This assessment informed the development of an action plan intended to address the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease. RESULTS The Action Plan on Lyme Disease sets out concrete action to be undertaken over three years, beginning in March 2014. It is built upon three pillars: 1.) Engagement, education and awareness, 2.) Surveillance, prevention and control, and 3.) Research and diagnosis. CONCLUSION Effective prevention and control of Lyme disease in Canada requires a coordinated multi-partner and stakeholder engagement approach.
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- M Harymann
- Public Health Agency of Canada, Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
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- Public Health Agency of Canada, Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
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- Public Health Agency of Canada, Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
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- Public Health Agency of Canada, Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
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- Public Health Agency of Canada, Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
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- Public Health Agency of Canada, Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
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Gariepy TD, Lindsay R, Ogden N, Gregory TR. Identifying the last supper: utility of the DNA barcode library for bloodmeal identification in ticks. Mol Ecol Resour 2012; 12:646-52. [PMID: 22471892 DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2012.03140.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Ticks are among the most important vectors of disease in the Northern Hemisphere, and a better understanding of their feeding behaviour and life cycle is critical to the management and control of tick-borne zoonoses. DNA-based tools for the identification of residual bloodmeals in hematophagous arthropods have proven useful in the investigation of patterns of host use in nature. Using a blind test approach, we challenged the utility of the DNA barcode library for the identification of vertebrate bloodmeals in engorged, field-collected Ixodes scapularis. Universal vertebrate primers for the COI barcode region successfully amplified DNA from the host bloodmeal and only rarely amplified tick DNA. Of the 61 field-collected ticks, conclusive genus- and species-level identification was possible for 72% of the specimens. In all but two cases, barcode-based identification of the bloodmeal was consistent with the morphological identification of the vertebrate host the ticks were collected from. Possible explanations for mismatches or ambiguities are presented. This study validates the utility of the DNA barcode library as a valuable and reliable resource for the identification of unknown bloodmeals in arthropod vectors of disease. Future directions aimed at the refinement of these techniques to gain additional information and to improve the amplification success of digested vertebrate DNA in tick bloodmeals are discussed.
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- T D Gariepy
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, London, ON, Canada.
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