Commentary: Borrelia miyamotoi: 43 Cases Diagnosed in France by Real-Time PCR in Patients With Persistent Polymorphic Signs and Symptoms

Front Med (Lausanne). 2020 Sep 2;7:474. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2020.00474. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Alex Wagemakers¹, Hein Sprong², Alexander Platonov³, Joppe W Hovius⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
² Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands.
³ Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia.
⁴ Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Keywords: Borrelia miyamotoi; PCR; commentary; contamination; false-positive; non-specific symptoms.

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Comment