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 3
Proportion of captured rodent hosts infested by larval and nymphal Ixodes ricinus ticks, southwestern Germany and Alsace
| Hosts |
% hosts infested by |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kinda | No. | None | Larvae alone | Nymphs alone | Larvae and nymphs |
| Af | 215 | 12.1 | 65.1 | 2.3 | 20.5 |
| As | 128 | 14.1 | 62.5 | 0.8 | 22.7 |
| Cg | 183 | 25.1 | 60.1 | 0.5 | 14.2 |
| Eq | 66 | 6.1 | 27.3 | 1.5 | 65.2 |
aYellow-necked mice (Apodemus flavicollis [Af]), wood mice (A. sylvaticus [As]), bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus [Cg]), and garden dormice (Eliomys quercinus [Eq]).
