Tracking of Borrelia afzelii Transmission from Infected Ixodes ricinus Nymphs to Mice-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Tracking of Borrelia afzelii Transmission from Infected Ixodes ricinus Nymphs to Mice

Published:2019-06 Issue:6 Volume:87 Page:
ISSN:0019-9567
Container-title:Infection and Immunity
language:en
Short-container-title:Infect Immun

Author:

Pospisilova Tereza¹²,Urbanova Veronika¹,Hes Ondrej³,Kopacek Petr¹,Hajdusek Ondrej¹,Sima Radek¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

2. Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

3. Department of Pathology, Charles University, Medical Faculty and Charles University Hospital, Plzen, Czech Republic

Abstract

Quantitative and microscopic tracking of Borrelia afzelii transmission from infected Ixodes ricinus nymphs has shown a transmission cycle different from that of Borrelia burgdorferi and Ixodes scapularis . Borrelia afzelii organisms are abundant in the guts of unfed I. ricinus nymphs, and their numbers continuously decrease during feeding.

Funder

European Commission

Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy

Grantová Agentura České Republiky

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Immunology,Microbiology,Parasitology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/IAI.00896-18

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