Matuschka F R, Klug B, Schinkel T W, Spielman A, Richter D
Institut für Pathologie, Virchow-Klinikum, Medizinische Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
Appl Environ Microbiol. 1998 May;64(5):1980-2. doi: 10.1128/AEM.64.5.1980-1982.1998.
We determined whether the genospecies diversity of Lyme disease spirochetes in vector ticks questing on a subtropical island is as broad as that in Central Europe. Although spirochetes infected < 1% of the ticks sampled on Madeira Island, these infections included all three genospecies implicated in human disease. Therefore, spirochetal diversity is as great at the southern margin as it is in the center of this pathogen's range.
我们确定了在亚热带岛屿上寻觅宿主的媒介蜱中莱姆病螺旋体的基因种多样性是否与中欧一样广泛。尽管在马德拉岛采集的蜱中，感染螺旋体的蜱不到1%，但这些感染包括了与人类疾病相关的所有三种基因种。因此，在该病原体分布范围的南部边缘，螺旋体的多样性与中部一样高。
