Volume 9, Number 6—June 2003
Research
Relapsing Fever–Like Spirochetes Infecting European Vector Tick of Lyme Disease Agent
Dania Richter*
, Daniela B. Schlee*, and Franz-Rainer Matuschka*
, Daniela B. Schlee*, and Franz-Rainer Matuschka*
Table 1
Prevalence of spirochetal variants in questing Ixodes ricinus ticks sampled from central Europea
| Site | Ticks examined |
% infected ticks infected by Borrelia |
% total ticks infected by RFS | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| stage | no. | % infected | RFS | afz | gar | val | bur | lus | ||
| PC |
nymph |
107 |
26.2 |
10.7 |
28.6 |
28.6 |
32.1 |
7.1 |
0 |
2.8 |
| adult |
34 |
52.9 |
16.7 |
33.3 |
22.2 |
27.8 |
5.6 |
0 |
8.8 |
|
| MK |
nymph |
63 |
28.6 |
5.6 |
27.8 |
55.6 |
5.6 |
11.1 |
0 |
1.6 |
| adult |
113 |
38.9 |
13.6 |
22.7 |
31.8 |
29.5 |
2.3 |
0 |
5.3 |
|
| LB |
nymph |
45 |
17.7 |
0 |
62.5 |
12.5 |
0 |
0 |
25.0 |
0 |
| adult | 203 | 39.9 | 8.6 | 37.0 | 25.9 | 7.4 | 1.2 | 22.2 | 3.4 | |
aThe sampling sites were Petite Camargue Alsacienne, France (PC), Maikammer, Germany (MK), and Lembach, France (LB), and the variants were B. afzelii (afz), B. garinii (gar), B. valaisiana (val), B. burgdorferi s.s. (bur), and B. lusitaniae (lus), European relapsing fever–like spirochete (RFS).
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