Detection of Lyme disease causing Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. in questing Ixodes ricinus ticks on Jersey

J Infect. 2017 Nov;75(5):464-465. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2017.07.003. Epub 2017 Jul 25.

Authors

Jolyon M Medlock¹, Scott Meadows², Kayleigh M Hansford³, Emma L Gillingham³, Stephen Thompson², Joseph Muscat⁴, Clara Beckert⁴, Ivan Muscat⁵

Affiliations

¹ Medical Entomology Group, Public Health England, Porton Down, Salisbury, UK; NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging & Zoonotic Infections, UK. Electronic address: jolyon.medlock@phe.gov.uk.
² Department of Environment, Howard Davis Farm, Trinity, Jersey.
³ Medical Entomology Group, Public Health England, Porton Down, Salisbury, UK.
⁴ Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
⁵ Jersey General Hospital, The Parade, St Helier, Jersey.

PMID: 28751172
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2017.07.003

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Animals, Wild / parasitology
Borrelia burgdorferi*
Channel Islands / epidemiology
Humans
Ixodes / microbiology*
Lyme Disease / epidemiology*
Lyme Disease / microbiology