Genospecies diversity of Lyme disease spirochetes in rodent reservoirs

To determine whether particular Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. genospecies associate solely with rodent reservoir hosts, we compared the genospecies prevalence in questing nymphal Ixodes ticks with that in xenodiagnostic ticks that had fed as larvae on rodents captured in the same site. No genospecies wa...

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Published inEmerging infectious diseases Vol. 5; no. 2; pp. 291 - 296
Main Authors Richter, D, Endepols, S, Ohlenbusch, A, Eiffert, H, Spielman, A, Matuschka, F R
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 01.03.1999
Subjects
Animals
Borrelia burgdorferi Group - classification
Borrelia burgdorferi Group - genetics
Borrelia burgdorferi Group - isolation & purification
Disease Reservoirs
DNA, Bacterial - chemistry
DNA, Bacterial - isolation & purification
Germany
Ixodes - microbiology
Muridae - microbiology
United States
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Summary:To determine whether particular Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. genospecies associate solely with rodent reservoir hosts, we compared the genospecies prevalence in questing nymphal Ixodes ticks with that in xenodiagnostic ticks that had fed as larvae on rodents captured in the same site. No genospecies was more prevalent in rodent-fed ticks than in questing ticks. The three main spirochete genospecies, therefore, share common rodent hosts.
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ISSN:1080-6040
1080-6059
DOI:10.3201/eid0502.990218