TY - JOUR AU - Krause, Peter AU - Narasimhan, Sukanya AU - Wormser, Gary AU - Barbour, Alan AU - Platonov, Alexander AU - Brancato, Janna AU - Lepore, Timothy AU - Dardick, Kenneth AU - Mamula, Mark AU - Rollend, Lindsay AU - Steeves, Tanner AU - Diuk-Wasser, Maria AU - Usmani-Brown, Sahar AU - Williamson, Phillip AU - Sarksyan, Denis AU - Fikrig, Erol AU - Fish, Durland T1 - Borrelia miyamotoi sensu lato Seroreactivity and Seroprevalence in the Northeastern United States T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2014 VL - 20 IS - 7 SP - 1183 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Borrelia miyamotoi sensu lato, a relapsing fever Borrelia sp., is transmitted by the same ticks that transmit B. burgdorferi (the Lyme disease pathogen) and occurs in all Lyme disease–endemic areas of the United States. To determine the seroprevalence of IgG against B. miyamotoi sensu lato in the northeastern United States and assess whether serum from B. miyamotoi sensu lato–infected persons is reactive to B. burgdorferi antigens, we tested archived serum samples from area residents during 1991–2012. Of 639 samples from healthy persons, 25 were positive for B. miyamotoi sensu lato and 60 for B. burgdorferi. Samples from ≈10% of B. miyamotoi sensu lato–seropositive persons without a recent history of Lyme disease were seropositive for B. burgdorferi. Our resultsA suggest thatA human B. miyamotoiA sensu latoA infection may be common in southern New England and that B. burgdorferi antibody testing is not an effective surrogate for detecting B. miyamotoi sensu lato infection. KW - Borrelia miyamotoi infection KW - tick-borne disease KW - ticks KW - relapsing fever KW - seroprevalence KW - seroreactivity KW - Borrelia miyamotoi sensu lato KW - United States KW - northeastern United States KW - spirochete KW - bacteria KW - Borrelia burgdorferi KW - New York State KW - New England KW - Lyme disease DO - 10.3201/eid2007.131587 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/7/13-1587_article ER - End of Reference