| relative incompetence of european rabbits for lyme disease spirochaetes. | to determine whether rabbits may serve as reservoir hosts for lyme disease spirochaetes in europe, we compared their competence as hosts for borrelia afzelii, one of the most prevalent european spirochaetal variants, with that of the mongolian jird. to infect rabbits or jirds, at least 3 nymphal or adult ixodes ricinus ticks infected with spirochaetes fed to repletion on each animal. whereas jirds readily acquired tick-borne lyme disease spirochaetes and subsequently infected vector ticks, rabbi ... | 2000 | 11085249 |
| bacteriolytic activity of selected vertebrate sera for borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto and borrelia bissettii. | an in vitro assay to evaluate the bacteriolytic activity of the complement pathway was applied to 2 strains of borrelia bissettii, co501 and dn127, and compared with that of b. burgdorferi sensu stricto b31. sera from mule deer (odocoileus hemionus) and the western fence lizard (sceloporus occidentalis) were completely borreliacidal for b. burgdorferi and for both strains of b. bissettii. serum from bobwhite quail (colinus virginianus) was nonlytic for b. burgdorferi and partially lytic for b. b ... | 2003 | 14740924 |