Characteristics of Garden Dormice That Contribute to Their Capacity as Reservoirs for Lyme Disease Spirochetes
Characteristics of Garden Dormice That Contribute to Their Capacity as Reservoirs for Lyme Disease Spirochetes
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花园睡鼠的特征有助于其成为莱姆病螺旋体的宿主
DOI：
10.1128/aem.65.2.707-711.1999
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发表时间：
1999
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
D. Richter
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作者：
F. Matuschka;R. Allgöwer;A. Spielman;D. Richter
摘要为了描述花园睡鼠对莱姆病流行病学的贡献，我们比较了它们对这些病原体和其他同域宿主的储存能力。花园里的睡鼠在早春和仲夏的时候最多，这是它们的后代觅食的时候。它们与潮湿的森林密切相关。花园睡鼠比其他小型哺乳动物更频繁地作为若虫蜱的宿主。螺旋体感染在睡鼠中最普遍，在研究地点，更多的蜱虫幼虫在以睡鼠为食的过程中感染。成熟的睡鼠似乎比青少年对病媒种群的感染更多。当它们的睡鼠宿主呆在它们的巢中时，充满活力的蜱虫幼虫通常会分离。花园睡鼠的种群比老鼠种群对病媒种群的感染多五到七倍。他们的能力，若虫喂养密度，并偏好蜱许可的栖息地联合收割机相结合，有利于花园睡鼠超过其他推定的水库主机莱姆病螺旋体。
ABSTRACT To describe the contribution of garden dormice to the epizootiology of Lyme disease, we compared their reservoir capacity for these pathogens to that of other sympatric hosts. Garden dormice are trapped most abundantly during early spring and again during midsummer, when their offspring forage. They are closely associated with moist forests. Garden dormice serve as hosts to nymphal ticks far more frequently than do other small mammals. Spirochetal infection is most prevalent in dormice, and many more larval ticks acquire infection in the course of feeding on these than on other rodents in the study site. Mature dormice appear to contribute more infections to the vector population than juveniles do. Replete larval ticks generally detach while their dormouse hosts remain within their nests. The population of garden dormice contributes five- to sevenfold more infections to the vector population than the mouse population does. Their competence, nymphal feeding density, and preference for a tick-permissive habitat combine to favor garden dormice over other putative reservoir hosts of Lyme disease spirochetes.
欧洲动物作为莱姆病螺旋体储存宿主的能力。
DOI：
10.1093/infdis/165.3.479
发表时间：
1992
期刊：
The Journal of infectious diseases
影响因子：
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作者：
Matuschka,FR;Fischer,P;Heiler,M;Richter,D;Spielman,A
通讯作者：
Spielman,A