Volume 12, Number 4—April 2006
Research
Epidemic Spread of Lyme Borreliosis, Northeastern United States
Table 2
Proportions of infectious hosts*
Host species | No. infectious/tested hosts (%) | No. infectious hosts† |
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GT1 | GT2 | GT3 | GT4 | GT5 | GT6 | GT7 | GT8 | MI | ||
White-footed mouse | 14/15 (93.3) | 3 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 11 |
Pine vole | 9/17 (52.9) | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
Eastern chipmunk | 3/3 (100) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||
Gray squirrel | 4/10 (40.0) | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
Raccoon | 3/10 (30) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Virginia opossum | 4/6 (66.7) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
Total | 37/62 (59.8) | 9 | 15 | 14 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 18 |
*GT, genotype; MI, mixed infections.
†In some cases, the sum of genotype infections was greater than the number of infected ticks because of mixed infections.
1Current affiliation, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, USA
2Current affiliation, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom