Sentences with phrase «scapularis keeps»
Ixodes scapularis keeps Lyme Borrelia cycling in nature, says Clark, as do three other Ixodes species on the ground: Ixodes affinis moves among rodents; I. minor moves among rodents and probably birds; and I. dentatus moves among birds and rabbits.
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B. burgdorferi clones were tested for their proficiency in the mouse - tick infectious cycle by using naïve RML mice and naïve Ixodes scapularis larvae from a colony kept at RML, as described in ref.