Volume 12, Number 12—December 2006
Research
Borrelia garinii in Seabird Ticks (Ixodes uriae), Atlantic Coast, North America
Table
Submissions of Ixodes uriae from coastal Maine (USA) and Canada, 1996–2005
Site | Host species | On humans | Flag/drag sampling | Soil/litter sample | ||||
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Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) | Murre (Uria aalge)/Razorbill (Alca torda) | Black guillemot (Cepphus grille) | Herring gull (Larus argentatus) | Common eider (Somateria mollissima) | ||||
Machias Seal Island* | 218 | 5 | 52 | |||||
Matinicus Rock* | 258 | 23 | 25 | 210 | ||||
Petit Manan Island* | 56 | 12 | ||||||
Seal Island* | 46 | |||||||
Gannet Island† | 111 | 88 | 8 | 72 | 31 | |||
Gull Island‡ | 22 | 22 | 5 | 76 | 200
*Maine, USA. |
*Maine, USA.
†Labrador, Canada.
‡Newfoundland, Canada.