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With enhanced diagnostic tools, public health and medical researchers are discovering new tick-borne disease agents each year, in some cases, uncovering cryptic species that are later found to be human pathogens. In this talk, I will outline historical and contemporary research conducted collaboratively by the California Department of Public Health, University of California, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to discover and describe bacteria in ticks that were only recently discovered to cause human disease, such as Rickettsia philipii, the agent of Pacific Coast tick fever and Borrelia miyamotoi, the agent of Borrelia miyamotoi disease, also known as hard tick-borne relapsing fever. Implications for disease discovery suggest that looking closely into taxonomy of bacteria within ticks may continue to unveil new diseases with distinct etiologies.
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