Without antibiotic treatment, the Lyme-disease–causing bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi can be cultured from the peripheral blood of human patients nearly 6 wk post-tick bite. To determine if Lyme disease spirochetes can be transmitted from a spirochetemic donor mouse to a naive recipient during blood transfusion, blood taken from immunocompetent infected mice was transfused into either immunodeficient (SCID) mice, inbred immunocompetent animals (C3H/HeJ), or outbred mice. Nine of 19 (47.7%) immunodeficient mice, 7 of 15 (46.8%) inbred immunocompetent mice, and 6 of 10 (60.0%) outbred mice became infected with B. burgdorferi after transfusion. Our results indicate that it is possible to acquire B. burgdoferi infection via transfused blood in a mouse model of Lyme borreliosis.
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August 01 2006
Transfer of Borrelia Burgdorferi s.s. Infection via Blood Transfusion in a Murine Model
Elizabeth S. Gabitzsch;
Elizabeth S. Gabitzsch
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, Bacterial Zoonoses Branch, Foothills Campus, Fort Collins, Colorado 80522. NAZ2@cdc.gov
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Joseph Piesman;
Joseph Piesman
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, Bacterial Zoonoses Branch, Foothills Campus, Fort Collins, Colorado 80522. NAZ2@cdc.gov
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Marc C. Dolan;
Marc C. Dolan
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, Bacterial Zoonoses Branch, Foothills Campus, Fort Collins, Colorado 80522. NAZ2@cdc.gov
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Christine M. Sykes;
Christine M. Sykes
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, Bacterial Zoonoses Branch, Foothills Campus, Fort Collins, Colorado 80522. NAZ2@cdc.gov
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Nordin S. Zeidner
Nordin S. Zeidner
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, Bacterial Zoonoses Branch, Foothills Campus, Fort Collins, Colorado 80522. NAZ2@cdc.gov
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J Parasitol (2006) 92 (4): 869–870.
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Elizabeth S. Gabitzsch, Joseph Piesman, Marc C. Dolan, Christine M. Sykes, Nordin S. Zeidner; Transfer of Borrelia Burgdorferi s.s. Infection via Blood Transfusion in a Murine Model. J Parasitol 1 August 2006; 92 (4): 869–870. doi: https://doi.org/10.1645/GE-833R.1
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