Lyme Disease Spirochetes in a Wild Fox (Vulpes vulpes schrencki) and in Ticks

Emiko Isogai; Hiroshi Isogai; Hiroki Kawabata; Toshiyuki Masuzawa; Yasutake Yanagihara; Koichi Kimura; Tooru Sakai; Yuzo Azuma; Nobuhiro Fujii; Shigeaki Ohno

doi:10.7589/0090-3558-30.3.439

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1 July 1994 Lyme Disease Spirochetes in a Wild Fox (Vulpes vulpes schrencki) and in Ticks

Emiko Isogai, Hiroshi Isogai, Hiroki Kawabata, Toshiyuki Masuzawa, Yasutake Yanagihara, Koichi Kimura, Tooru Sakai, Yuzo Azuma, Nobuhiro Fujii, Shigeaki Ohno

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J. of Wildlife Diseases, 30(3):439-444 (1994). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-30.3.439

Abstract

Lyme disease spirochetes were demonstrated in a wild female fox (Vulpes vulpes schrencki) and in Ixodes persulcatus ticks collected from the fox on Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. Spirochetes were detected in I. persulcatus, as well as skin lesions, brain, heart, kidney, and liver of the fox. Five of seven isolates reacted with a monoclonal antibody against Borrelia afzelii specific Osp B. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) relatedness of a brain isolate was 89% to B. afzelii, and ranged from 50 to 67% to three other species. Immunoglobulin G antibodies to B. afzelii, B. garinii and B. burgdorferi sensu lato, when tested in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), were negative in the fox. There were no antibodies against seven serovars of Leptospira interrogans.

Isogai, Isogai, Kawabata, Masuzawa, Yanagihara, Kimura, Sakai, Azuma, Fujii, and Ohno: Lyme Disease Spirochetes in a Wild Fox (Vulpes vulpes schrencki) and in Ticks

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Emiko Isogai, Hiroshi Isogai, Hiroki Kawabata, Toshiyuki Masuzawa, Yasutake Yanagihara, Koichi Kimura, Tooru Sakai, Yuzo Azuma, Nobuhiro Fujii, and Shigeaki Ohno "Lyme Disease Spirochetes in a Wild Fox (Vulpes vulpes schrencki) and in Ticks," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 30(3), 439-444, (1 July 1994). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-30.3.439

Received: 26 April 1993; Published: 1 July 1994

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