Adaptation of Diverse Lyme Disease Spirochetes in a Natural Rodent Reservoir Host
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- 1 April 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Infection and Immunity
- Vol. 72 (4) , 2442-2444
- https://doi.org/10.1128/iai.72.4.2442-2444.2004
Abstract
We compared the relative reservoir competence of European wood mice for two genospecies of Lyme disease spirochetes by analyzing susceptibility, intrinsic incubation period, and degree and duration of infectivity.Borrelia afzelii, specializing in particular reservoir hosts, is better adapted to those hosts than is the more generalist genospeciesB. burgdorferisensu stricto.Keywords
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