“To our surprise, it was found at all our testing sites throughout New England.”
Peter Krause, M.D., senior research scientist at the Yale School of Public Health and senior author of the study. “We thought that Borrelia miyamotoi, because it was so recently discovered, would have been more locally confined,” said Dr. The tiny species is transmitted by the same deer ticks that carry the Lyme disease pathogen, and can cause meningoencephalitis and relapsing fevers. The findings add important new details to understanding the bacteria species, Borrelia miyamotoi, which was only recently found to infect humans. Evidence of a relative to the bacteria that causes Lyme disease has been detected in human blood samples across New England, according to a new study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.
