Identifying the Reservoir Hosts of the Lyme Disease Spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi in California: The Role of the Western Gray Squirrel (Sciurus griseus)
| العنوان: | Identifying the Reservoir Hosts of the Lyme Disease Spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi in California: The Role of the Western Gray Squirrel (Sciurus griseus) |
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| المؤلفون: | Jeomhee Mun, Daniel J. Salkeld, Yvette A. Girard, Nina Hahn, Kerry A. Padgett, Sarah Leonhard, Robert S. Lane |
| المصدر: | The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 79:535-540 |
| بيانات النشر: | American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2008. |
| سنة النشر: | 2008 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Male, Disease reservoir, Veterinary medicine, animal diseases, Zoology, Spirochaetaceae, Polymerase Chain Reaction, behavioral disciplines and activities, Article, Lyme disease, Virology, parasitic diseases, Prevalence, medicine, Animals, Humans, Borrelia burgdorferi, Disease Reservoirs, Sciurus, Lyme Disease, Sciurus carolinensis, biology, Sciuridae, bacterial infections and mycoses, biology.organism_classification, medicine.disease, Western gray squirrel, Infectious Diseases, Ixodes pacificus, Female, Parasitology, psychological phenomena and processes |
| الوصف: | We investigated the role of the western gray squirrel (Sciurus griseus) as a reservoir host of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. A survey of 222 western gray squirrels in California showed an overall prevalence of B. burgdorferi infection of 30%, although at a county level, prevalence of infection ranged from 0% to 50% by polymerase chain reaction. Laboratory trials with wild-caught western gray squirrels indicated that squirrels were competent reservoir hosts of the Lyme disease bacterium and infected up to 86% of feeding Ixodes pacificus larvae. Infections were long-lasting (up to 14 months), which demonstrated that western gray squirrels can maintain B. burgdorferi trans-seasonally. Non-native eastern gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) and fox squirrels (Sciurus niger) were infrequently infected with B. burgdorferi. |
| تدمد: | 1476-1645 0002-9637 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::644b16ba6bb75a85d6fc840172409a4e https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.2008.79.535 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....644b16ba6bb75a85d6fc840172409a4e |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14761645 00029637 |
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