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Case Report: The First Borrelia yangtzensis Infection in a Human in Korea
Choon Mee Kim
Choon Mee Kim
Premedical Science, College of Medicine, Chosun University, Gwangju, South Korea;
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Na Ra Yun
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Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Chosun University, Gwangju, South Korea
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Dong-Min Kim
Dong-Min Kim
Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Chosun University, Gwangju, South Korea
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ABSTRACT.
Borrelia yangtzensis has been identified in rodents and ticks in China and Japan. A 57-year-old woman with bite mark was diagnosed with B. yangtzensis infection via molecular and serological testing. Here, we report the first case of human infection caused by B. yangtzensis in Korea.
Author Notes
Authors’ addresses: Choon Mee Kim, Premedical Science, College of Medicine, Chosun University, Gwangju, South Korea, E-mail: choonmee@chosun.ac.kr. Na Ra Yun and Dong-Min Kim, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Chosun University, Gwangju, South Korea, E-mails: shine@chosun.ac.kr and drongkim@chosun.ac.kr.
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1.
Kim SY, Kim TK, Kim TY, Lee HI, 2020. Geographical distribution of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in ticks collected from wild rodents in the Republic of Korea. Pathogens 9: 866.
-
2.
Pritt BS et al.2016. Identification of a novel pathogenic Borrelia species causing Lyme borreliosis with unusually high spirochaetaemia: a descriptive study. Lancet Infect Dis 16: 556–564.
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3.
Margos G, Chu CY, Takano A, Jiang BG, Liu W, Kurtenbach K, Masuzawa T, Fingerle V, Cao WC, Kawabata H, 2015. Borrelia yangtzensis sp. nov. a rodent-associated species in Asia, is related to Borrelia valaisiana. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 65: 3836–3840.
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4.
Park K-H, Choi Y-J, Kim J, Park H-J, Song D, Jang W-J, 2018. Reclassification of Borrelia spp. isolated in South Korea using multilocus sequence typing. Jpn J Infect Dis 71: 350–353.
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5.
Sapi E, Pabbati N, Datar A, Davies EM, Rattelle A, Kuo BA, 2013. Improved culture conditions for the growth and detection of Borrelia from human serum. Int J Med Sci 10: 362–376.
-
6.
Liu W et al.2016. Candidatus Rickettsia tarasevichiae infection in eastern central China a case series. Ann Intern Med 164: 641.
-
7.
Massung RF, Levin ML, Munderloh UG, Silverman DJ, Lynch MJ, Gaywee JK, Kurtti TJ, 2007. Isolation and propagation of the Ap-Variant 1 strain of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in a tick cell line. J Clin Microbiol 45: 2138–2143.
-
8.
Khoo JJ, Ishak SN, Lim FS, Mohd-Taib FS, Khor CS, Loong SK, AbuBakar S, 2018. Detection of a Borrelia sp. from ixodes granulatus ticks collected from rodents in Malaysia. J Med Entomol 55: 1642–1647.
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9.
Kim CM, Seo JW, Kim DM, Yun NR, Park JW, Chung JK, Song HJ, 2019. Detection of Borrelia miyamotoi in Ixodes nipponensis in Korea. PLoS One 4: e0220465.
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10.
Choi YJ et al.2007. First molecular detection of Borrelia afzelii in clinical samples in Korea. Microbiol Immunol 51: 1201–1207.
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