Characteristics of garden dormice that contribute to their capacity as reservoirs for lyme disease spirochetes
| Autor: | Andrew Spielman, Dania Richter, Rainer Allgöwer, Franz-Rainer Matuschka |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Disease reservoir
Population Rodentia Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Population density Rodent Diseases Lyme disease biology.animal parasitic diseases medicine Animals Borrelia burgdorferi Dormouse education Disease Reservoirs Population Density education.field_of_study Lyme Disease Ecology biology Ixodes fungi technology industry and agriculture biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Epizootiology bacterial infections and mycoses Tick Infestations Environmental and Public Health Microbiology Arachnid Vectors Seasons Food Science Biotechnology |
| Zdroj: | Applied and environmental microbiology. 65(2) |
| ISSN: | 0099-2240 |
| Popis: | To describe the contribution of garden dormice to the epizootiology of Lyme disease, we compared their reservoir capacity for these pathogens to that of other sympatric hosts. Garden dormice are trapped most abundantly during early spring and again during midsummer, when their offspring forage. They are closely associated with moist forests. Garden dormice serve as hosts to nymphal ticks far more frequently than do other small mammals. Spirochetal infection is most prevalent in dormice, and many more larval ticks acquire infection in the course of feeding on these than on other rodents in the study site. Mature dormice appear to contribute more infections to the vector population than juveniles do. Replete larval ticks generally detach while their dormouse hosts remain within their nests. The population of garden dormice contributes five- to sevenfold more infections to the vector population than the mouse population does. Their competence, nymphal feeding density, and preference for a tick-permissive habitat combine to favor garden dormice over other putative reservoir hosts of Lyme disease spirochetes. |
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