2018
Human Borrelia miyamotoi infection in California: Serodiagnosis is complicated by multiple endemic Borrelia species
Krause PJ, Carroll M, Fedorova N, Brancato J, Dumouchel C, Akosa F, Narasimhan S, Fikrig E, Lane RS. Human Borrelia miyamotoi infection in California: Serodiagnosis is complicated by multiple endemic Borrelia species. PLOS ONE 2018, 13: e0191725. PMID: 29420552, PMCID: PMC5805228, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0191725.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBorrelia miyamotoi infectionMiyamotoi infectionB. miyamotoiB. miyamotoi diseaseB. miyamotoi infectionB. burgdorferi infectionHealth care professionalsWhole cell lysatesSeropositive subjectsSufficient serumClinical dataBurgdorferi infectionAntibody assaysSeropositive samplesCare professionalsBorrelia antigensInfectionSerumAntibodiesBorrelia burgdorferiAntigenI. pacificus ticksMiyamotoiTick infectionFever spirochetes
1998
Reactivity of Human Sera to Different Strains of Granulocytic Ehrlichiae in Immunodiagnostic Assays
Magnarelli L, IJdo J, Dumler J, Heimer R, Fikrig E. Reactivity of Human Sera to Different Strains of Granulocytic Ehrlichiae in Immunodiagnostic Assays. The Journal Of Infectious Diseases 1998, 178: 1835-1838. PMID: 9815246, DOI: 10.1086/314516.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNCH-1 strainIndirect IFAHuman granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE) agentHuman granulocytic ehrlichiosisWestern blot analysisInfected neutrophilsPromyelocytic leukemia cellsHuman promyelocytic leukemia cellsAntibody detectionGranulocytic ehrlichiosisEhrlichia equiDifferent strainsHuman isolatesLeukemia cellsSerumImmunodiagnostic assaysBlot analysisGranulocytic ehrlichiaeIFA analysisHuman serumIFAEhrlichiaeAssaysSeropositivityPatients