1725Surveillance for Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes Ticks and Mice in British Columbia
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British Columbia Muhammad G. Morshed, PhD; Min-Kuang Lee, MS; Stephanie Man, BS; Keerthi Fernando, MSc; Quantine Wong, BS; Patrick Tang, MD, PhD, FRCPC; David M. Patrick, MD, MHSc, FRCPC; Sunny Mak, MSc; Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC; British Columbia Centre for Disease Control Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory, Provincial Health Services Authority, Vancouver, BC, Canada; British Columbia Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada; British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Surveillance for Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes Ticks and Small Rodents in British Columbia*
To determine the prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi in British Columbian ticks, fieldwork was conducted over a 2-year period. In all, 893 ticks (Ixodes pacificus, I. angustus, I. soricis, Ixodes spp., and Dermacentor andersoni) of different life stages were retrieved from 483 small rodents (Peromyscus maniculatus, Perognathus parvus, and Reithrodontomys megalotis). B. burgdorferi DNA was detect...
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