Discovery of an enzootic cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi in Neotoma mexicana and Ixodes spinipalpis from northern Colorado, an area where Lyme disease is nonendemic.

Maupin GO, Gage KL, Piesman J, Montenieri J, Sviat SL, VanderZanden L, Happ CM, Dolan M, Johnson BJ

Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado 80522.

Article type: Curated - Canary ID: 589

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Cause and Effect Analysis	Interspecies susceptibility data	Shared exposures with humans	Shared outcomes with humans	Gene sequence data
Yes	Yes	No	No	No

Study type	N	Routes	Sampling	Controls	Timing
cross sectional	1044	ingestion, vector	outcome	yes	repeated

Exposures	Borrelia burgdorferi Group
Outcomes	Carrier State Lyme Disease
Species	Ixodes spinipalpis Neotoma cinerea Neotoma mexicana Peromyscus difficilis Rock squirrel Tamias quadrivittatus
Locations	United States Colorado Carter Lake (lake) Fort Collins (populated place) Larimer County (populated place)

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