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SUBMITTER: Richter D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2976204 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Richter Dania D Matuschka Franz-Rainer FR
Applied and environmental microbiology 20100924 22
To determine whether and which spirochetes are cleared from Ixodes ricinus ticks during feeding on ruminants, ticks were removed from goats and cattle grazing on tick-infested pastures. Although about a quarter of ticks questing on the pasture were infected by spirochetes, no molted ticks that had previously engorged to repletion on ruminants harbored Lyme disease spirochetes. Borrelia miyamotoi spirochetes, however, appear not to be eliminated. Thus, the more subadult ticks are diverted from re ...[more]