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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 1

Captured mammals and their infestation with Ixodes scapularis *

Host species No. hosts No. captures Larvae†
Nymphs‡
N Mean (SE) N Mean (SE)
White-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) 132 283 2,548 9.0 (0.7) 414 1.5 (0.2)
Pine vole (Microtus pinetorum) 23 23 127 5.5 (2.3) 17 0.7 (0.2)
Eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus) 3 8 106 13.3 (7.3) 145 18.1 (13.0)
Gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) 14 22 117 5.3 (1.3) 321 14.6 (4.8)
Raccoon (Procyon lotor) 39 49 3,630 77.0 (14.5) 394 8.0 (1.1)
Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) 7 14 1,083 77.4 (25.2) 82 5.9 (3.3)
Common shrew (Sorex cinereus) 1 1 NA NA
Short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda) 2 2 NA NA
Stripped skunk (Mephitis mephitis) 1 1 NA NA

*SE, standard error; NA, not analyzed.
†Kruskal-Wallis test, χ2 = 33.61, degree of freedom (df) = 5; p<0.001.
‡Kruskal-Wallis test, χ2 = 57.76, df = 5; p<0.001.

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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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