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| Basile,Roberta Carvalho; Yoshinari,Natalino Hajime; Mantovani,Elenice; Bonoldi,Virgínia Nazário; Macoris,Delphim da Graça; Queiroz-Neto,Antonio de. |
| Abstract Borreliosis caused by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato is a cosmopolitan zoonosis studied worldwide; it is called Lyme disease in many countries of the Northern Hemisphere and Lyme-like or Baggio-Yoshinari Syndrome in Brazil. However, despite the increasing number of suspect cases, this disease is still neglected in Brazil by the medical and veterinary communities. Brazilian Lyme-like borreliosis likely involves capybaras as reservoirs and Amblyomma and Rhipicephalus ticks as vectors. Thus, domestic animals can serve as key carriers in pathogen dissemination. This zoonosis has been little studied in horses in Brazil. The first survey was performed in the state of Rio de Janeiro, and this Brazilian Borreliosis exhibits many differences from the... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Borrelia burgdorferi; Zoonosis; Ticks; Equine; Baggio-Yoshinari Syndrome. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822017000100167 |
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