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Borrelia turcica  comprises the third major group of arthropod-transmitted borreliae and is phylogenetically divergent from other  Borrelia  groups. The novel group of  Borrelia  was initially isolated from  Hyalomma aegyptium  ticks in Turkey and it was recently found in blood and multiple organs of tortoises exported from Jordan to Japan. However, the ecology of these spirochetes and their development in ticks or the vertebrate hosts were not investigated in detail; our aims were to isolate the pathogen and to evaluate the possibility of transstadial transmission of  Borrelia turcica  by  H. aegyptium  ticks. Ticks were collected from  Testudo graeca  tortoises during the summer of 2013 from southeastern Romania. Engorged nymphs were successfully molted to the adult stage. Alive  B. turcica  was isolated from molted ticks by using Barbour-Stoenner-Kelly (BSK) II medium. Four pure cultures of spirochetes were obtained and analyzed by PCR and sequencing. Sequence analysis of  glpQ ,  gyrB  and  flaB  revealed 98%–100% similarities with  B. turcica .  H. aegyptium  ticks collected from  T. graeca  tortoises were able to pass the infection with  B. turcica  via transstadial route, suggesting its vectorial capacity.

Transstadial Transmission of Borrelia turcica in Hyalomma aegyptium Ticks