Barb and Kate

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There's an MD in my Microbial Pathogenesis class (MDs can take some

grad school courses when they do an Infect. Dis. fellowship). I think

she just published, or is about to, about isolating one of the

*Eurasian* borreliae from ticks taken off puffins in Nova Scotia. I

don't know her name.

I just tried to look it up on pubmed and didn't find it, but did get

these:

1: JD, K, Banerjee SN, Durden LA, Byrne SK, Banerjee

M, Mann RB, Morshed MG. Related Articles, Links

Birds disperse ixodid (Acari: Ixodidae) and Borrelia burgdorferi-

infected ticks in Canada.

J Med Entomol. 2001 Jul;38(4):493-500.

PMID: 11476328 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

2: Morshed MG, JD, Banerjee SN, Banerjee M, Fitzgerald T,

K, Mann R, Isaac-Renton J. Related Articles, Links

First isolation of Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi,

from blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, removed from a bird in nova

Scotia, Canada.

Can Commun Dis Rep. 1999 Sep 15;25(18):153-5. English, French. No

abstract available.

PMID: 10726372 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

3: Keirans JE, Hutcheson HJ, Durden LA, Klompen JS. Related Articles,

Links

Ixodes (Ixodes) scapularis (Acari:Ixodidae): redescription of all

active stages, distribution, hosts, geographical variation, and

medical and veterinary importance.

J Med Entomol. 1996 May;33(3):297-318.

PMID: 8667375 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

>

> Rats, I can't sign, being a Canadian resident (still a US citizen

> though). That's ironic, considering how the Canadian medical system

> thinks Lyme is a US problem.

>

> - Kate