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Volume 12, Number 4—April 2006
Research

Epidemic Spread of Lyme Borreliosis, Northeastern United States

Klára Hanincová*1Comments to Author , Klaus Kurtenbach*2, Maria A. Diuk-Wasser*, Brandon Brei*, and Durland Fish*
Author affiliations: *Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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Table 5

Exposure of animals to infected nymphs*

Host species No. infected nymphs per host†
GT1 GT2 GT3 GT4 GT5 GT6 GT7 GT8
White-footed mouse 2.2 9.7 5.7 1.1 1.7 0.29 0.4 0.4
Pine vole 0.8 2.2 0.7 0.3 0.2 0.3 0 0.5
Eastern chipmunk 9.1 45.5 29.6 4.6 9.1 0 2.3 0
Gray squirrel 12.6 58.0 34.3 6.3 10.4 1.5 2.4 2.3
Raccoon 6.5 25.4 12.2 3.2 3.5 2.0 0.6 2.9
Virginia opossum 9.0 29.1 9.0 4.5 2.2 4.5 0 6.7

*GT, genotype.
†For mice, raccoons and squirrels, calculated values are given as average numbers per season for years 2002 and 2003. For other species, average numbers are given per season for year where data were available.

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1Current affiliation, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, USA

2Current affiliation, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

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