| amplifying role of edible dormice in lyme disease transmission in central europe. | to determine whether the presence of edible dormice (glis glis) amplifies the risk of human infection by the lyme disease spirochete (borrelia burgdorferi), the capacity of dormice as reservoir hosts was compared with that of other potential reservoirs in a central european site where risk of human infection is intense. dormice appeared to be more heavily infested by subadult vector wood ticks (ixodes ricinus) than were other reservoir hosts. although their spirochete competence was similar to o ... | 1994 | 8014486 |
| transmission of borrelia afzelii from apodemus mice and clethrionomys voles to ixodes ricinus ticks: differential transmission pattern and overwintering maintenance. | this study deals with the ecology of lyme borreliosis in europe. the relationships between borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato spirochetes, clethrionomys and apodemus rodent reservoirs and the ixodes ricinus tick vector were investigated during 16 consecutive months in an enzootic area in switzerland. cultivation of ear skin biopsies was used to isolate spirochetes from c. glareolus, a. sylvaticus, a. flavicollis and glis glis. borrelia infection was more frequently observed in clethrionomys than in ... | 1999 | 10070659 |
| seasonal prevalence of lyme disease spirochetes in a heterothermic mammal, the edible dormouse (glis glis). | in europe, dormice serve as competent reservoir hosts for particular genospecies of the tick-borne agent of lyme disease (ld) and seem to support them more efficiently than do mice or voles. the longevity of edible dormice (glis glis) and their attractiveness for ticks may result in a predominance of ld spirochetes in ticks questing in dormouse habitats. to investigate the role of edible dormice in the transmission cycle of ld spirochetes, we sampled skin tissue from the ear pinnae of dormice in ... | 0 | 24705325 |
| the vector tick ixodes ricinus feeding on an arboreal rodent-the edible dormouse glis glis. | the reservoir competence and long life expectancy of edible dormice, glis glis, suggest that they serve as efficient reservoir hosts for lyme disease (ld) spirochetes. their arboreality, however, may reduce the probability to encounter sufficient questing ixodes ricinus ticks to acquire and perpetuate ld spirochetes. to define the potential role of this small arboreal hibernator in the transmission cycle of ld spirochetes, we examined their rate and density of infestation with subadult ticks thr ... | 2016 | 26670314 |