Borrelia miyamotoi–Associated Neuroborreliosis in Immunocompromised Person

Borrelia miyamotoi is a newly recognized human pathogen in the relapsing fever group of spirochetes. We investigated a case of B. miyamotoi infection of the central nervous system resembling B. burgdorferi–induced Lyme neuroborreliosis and determined that this emergent agent of central nervous system infection can be diagnosed with existing methods.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Emerging Infectious Diseases

• Publication date

  2016-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3201/eid2209.152034PMID 27533748PMCID 4994329
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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