| Literature DB >> 15039378 |
Dania Richter1, Birte Klug, Andrew Spielman, Franz-Rainer Matuschka.
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 genospecies B. burgdorferi sensu stricto.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15039378 PMCID: PMC375191 DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.4.2442-2444.2004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Infect Immun ISSN: 0019-9567 Impact factor: 3.441