Sentences with phrase «of nymphal»

Kahl O, Janetzki - Mittmann C, Gray JS, Jonas R, Stein J, de Boer R. Risk of infection with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato for a host in relation to the duration of nymphal Ixodes ricinus feeding and the method of tick removal.

Finally, we fed a portion of our nymphal ticks on clean mice as controls to validate the absence of spirochetes in our tick colony.

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Results on the trend toward advanced spring emergence were published this February in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Among the paper's findings: nymphal ticks peak in the spring, larval ticks peak in the summer, and both emerge nearly three weeks earlier in warmer years.

(B) Confocal image of IFA of salivary glands from partially fed nymphal ticks.

(A) IFA of midgut tissues from partially fed nymphal ticks infected with B31 - A3 WT, ospC7 mutant, or ospC7 / ospC +4 complemented B. burgdorferi clones.

Serology and reisolation from mice on which nymphal ticks fed confirmed that WT and complemented clones infected mice, whereas none of the mice fed upon by nymphs colonized with the ospC mutant became infected (Table 2).

Replete larval and nymphal I. scapularis and I. cookei were collected from trapped mammals and birds following field and animal husbandry methods of LoGiudice and colleagues [29, 30].

Selected nymphal ticks were processed by indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) staining to evaluate for the presence of intact B. burgdorferi spirochetes.

Diuk - Wasser, M. A., G. Vourc» h, P. Cislo, A. G. Hoen, F. Melton, S. A. Hamer, M. Rowland, R. Cortinas, G. J. Hickling, J. I. Tsao, A. G. Barbour, U. Kitron, J. Piesman, and D. Fish, 2010: Field and climate - based model for predicting the density of host - seeking nymphal Ixodes scapularis, an important vector of tick - borne disease agents in the eastern United States.