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Volume 9, Number 6—June 2003
Research

Relapsing Fever–Like Spirochetes Infecting European Vector Tick of Lyme Disease Agent

Dania Richter*Comments to Author , Daniela B. Schlee*, and Franz-Rainer Matuschka*
Author affiliations: *Institut für Pathologie, Charité, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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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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