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  <dc:contributor>H. S. Ginsberg</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>K.E. Hyland</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>R. Hu</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>D. Markowski</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1998</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;The reservoir competence of the meadow vole,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Microtus pennsylvanicus&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Ord, for the Lyme disease spirochete&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Borrelia burgdorferi&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Johnson, Schmid, Hyde, Steigerwalt &amp;amp; Brenner was established on Patience Island, RI. Meadow voles were collected from 5 locations throughout Rhode Island. At 4 of the field sites,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;M. pennsylvanicus&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;represented only 4.0% (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;n&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;= 141) of the animals captured. However, on Patience Island,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;M. pennsylvanicus&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;was the sole small mammal collected (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;n&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;= 48). Of the larval&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ixodes scapularis&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Say obtained from the meadow voles on Patience Island, 62% (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;n&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;= 78) was infected with&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;B. burgdorferi&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;. Meadow voles from all 5 locations were successfully infected with&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;B. burgdorferi&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;in the laboratory and were capable of passing the infection to xenodiagnostic&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;I. scapularis&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;larvae for 9 wk. We concluded that&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;M. pennsylvanicus&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;was physiologically capable of maintaining&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;B. burgdorferi&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;infection. However, in locations where&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Peromyscus leucopus&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Rafinesque) is abundant, the role of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;M. pennsylvanicus&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;as a primary reservoir for&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;B. burgdorferi&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;was reduced.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1093/jmedent/35.5.804</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Oxford Academic</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Reservoir competence of Microtus pennsylvanicus (Rodentia: Cricetidae) for the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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