Volume 5, Number 2—April 1999
Dispatch
Genospecies Diversity of Lyme Disease Spirochetes in Rodent Reservoirs
Table 3
Borrelia genospecies diversity in questing Ixodes ricinus ticks from various European sites
| Borrelia genospecies |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sitea | No. infected ticks | Relative ratio |
% mixed | Sampling method | Ref. | ||
| afzb | gar | bur | |||||
| CH 1 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | Culture | 7 |
| 2 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | Culture | 7 |
| v | 50 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 0 | Culture | 17 |
| CR v | 56 | 19 | 3 | 1 | 20 | Direct | 13 |
| D 1 | 52 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 2 | Direct | 1 |
| 2 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | Direct | TAc |
| F 1 | 25 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 24 | Direct | 12 |
| GB 1 | 16 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 0 | Direct | 8 |
| IR 1 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | Direct | 15 |
| 2 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | Direct | 15 |
| 3 | 20 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 15 | Direct | 15 |
| NL 1 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 14 | Direct | 18 |
| v | 63 | 1 | 9 | 14 | 0 | Culture | 16 |
| SL 1 | 47 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | Culture | 14 |
| v | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Culture | 14 |
aCH, Switzerland; CR, Croatia; D, Germany; F, France; GB,Great Britain; IR, Ireland; NL, Netherlands; SL, Slovenia; v,sum of various sites in a country.
bafz, Borrelia afzelii; gar, Borrelia garinii; bur, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto.
cThis article.
