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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Main Authors: Dania Richter, Stefan Endepols, Andreas Ohlenbusch, Helmut Eiffert, Andrew Spielman, Franz-Rainer Matuschka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1999-04-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/5/2/99-0218_article