Volume 9, Number 7—July 2003
Letter
Co-feeding Transmission and Its Contribution to the Perpetuation of the Lyme Disease Spirochete Borrelia afzelii (In Reply to Randolph and Gern)
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
| No. examined | % infected | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 88 | 13.6 |
| 14 | 82 | 85.4 |
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