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is an emerging tick-borne pathogen in the Northern Hemisphere and is the causative agent of disease (BMD). is vectored by the same hard-bodied ticks as Lyme disease , yet phylogenetically groups with relapsing fever and thus, has been uniquely labeled a hard tick-borne relapsing fever . Burgeoning research has uncovered new aspects of in human patients, nature, and the lab.
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- The Dicrocoeliidae is a diverse family of parasitic flatworms found in the gall bladder and liver of various tetrapod hosts, but they have not been previously studied in the ancient marsupial family Caenolestidae.
- New genera and species were identified, including Otongatrema n. gen. from the shrew opossum Caenolestes fuliginosus and Metadelphis cesartapiai n. sp. from a bat in Ecuador, distinguished by specific morphological features and genetic analysis.
- Phylogenetic studies suggest Otongatrema is closely related to Caenolestidae, indicating a potential co-evolutionary relationship, and highlight three independent occurrences of intestinal structure loss in