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Human <i>Borrelia miyamotoi</i> Infection, Austria

Selma Tobudic, Heinz Burgmann, Gerold Stanek, Stefan Winkler, Anna‐Margarita Schötta, Markus Obermüller, Mateusz Markowicz, Heimo Lagler

Emerging infectious diseases · 2020 · 38 citations · 14 references

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We report a human case of Borrelia miyamotoi infection diagnosed in Austria. Spirochetes were detected in Giemsa-stained blood smears. The presence of B. miyamotoi in the patient's blood was confirmed by PCR, and phylogenetic analysis identified an infection with a strain from Europe.

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