Sentences with phrase «only by infected ticks»
This unique bacteria is transmitted only by infected ticks that latch on to the dog and sucks the blood from the host in order to complete its life cycle.
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The uninfected larvae acquire Borrelia only after taking a blood meal from infected white - footed mice previously bitten by other infected ticks.
Although this high dose elicited a seroconversion in all mice injected with either B31 - A3 (2/2) or ospC7 mutant bacteria (4/4), only mice inoculated with B31 - A3 became infected (2/2), as assessed by xenodiagnosis with larval ticks and reisolation from mouse tissues.