New Tick-Borne Disease, Distantly Related to Lyme, Is Found

Monday, September 19, 2011 - 17:30 in Health & Medicine

The disease is caused by a spirochete bacterium called Borrelia miyamotoi, which is distantly related to Borrelia burgdorferi, the spirochete that causes Lyme disease.

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