Volume 5, Number 2—April 1999
Dispatch
Genospecies Diversity of Lyme Disease Spirochetes in Rodent Reservoirs
Table 2
Natural infectivity for xenodiagnostic Ixodes ricinus ticks of various genospecies of Lyme disease spirochetes
| No. ticks infected by Borrelia | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infected rodent | Rodent no. | afzelii | garinii | burgdorferi nsu stricto |
| Rattus | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| norvegicus | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| (Norway rats) | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | |
| 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| Total | 7 | 13 | 5 | |
| Apodemus | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| flavicollis | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| (Yellow-necked mice) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 6 | 6 | 2 | |
