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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 3

Borrelia burgdorferi infections and frequency distributions of genotypes in ticks*

Host species No. of infected/tested ticks (%) No. of ticks infected with different genotypes (%)†
GT1 GT2 GT3 GT4 GT5 GT6 GT7 GT8 ND
White-footed mouse 90/100 (90.0) 11 (11.0) 31 (31.0) 26 (26.0) 4 (4.0) 10 (10.0) 2 (2.0) 1 (1.0) 4 (4.0) 11 (11.0)
Pine vole 29/113 (25.7) 13 (11.5) 7 (6.2) 1 (0.9) 2 (1.8) 1 (0.9) 1 (0.9) 5 (4.4)
Eastern chipmunk 17/73 (23.3) 1 (1.4) 4 (5.5) 12(16.4)
Gray squirrel 19/60 (31.7) 16 (26.7) 7 (11.7)
Raccoon 38/500 (7.6) 5 (1.0) 5 (1.0) 15 (3.0) 8 (1.6) 5 (1.0)
Virginia opossum 27/271 (10.0) 1 (0.4) 13 (4.8) 3 (1.1) 1 (0.4) 5 (1.8)
Subtotal 220/1,117 (19.7) 30 (2.7) 44 (3.9) 40 (3.6) 25 (2.2) 31 (2.8) 2 (0.2) 10 (0.9) 23 (2.1) 25 (2.2)
Field-collected nymphs 69/178 (38.8) 8 (4.5) 33 (18.5) 17 (9.6) 6 (3.4) 5 (2.8) 2 (1.1) 1 (0.6) 3 (1.7)

*GT, genotype; ND, not determined.
†In some cases, the sum of genotype infections was greater than the number of infected ticks because of mixed infections (data not shown).

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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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