Volume 8, Number 12—December 2002
Research
Co-feeding Transmission and Its Contribution to the Perpetuation of the Lyme Disease Spirochete Borrelia afzelii
Dania Richter*
, Rainer Allgöwer*, and Franz-Rainer Matuschka*
, Rainer Allgöwer*, and Franz-Rainer Matuschka*Table 2
Spirochetal infection in larval Ixodes ricinus ticks that fed randomly on bodies of mice beginning at 3 days and 14 days after a single Borrelia afzelii–infected nymph had begun to feed
| Duration of nymphal attachment before larvae attached (days) | Infection in larvae |
|
|---|---|---|
| No. examined | % infected | |
| 3 | 88 | 13.6 |
| 14 | 82 | 85.4 |
