Journal of Vector Ecology (1996) 21, 178-185

E.I. Korenberg and G.G. Moskvitina (1996)
Interrelationships between different Borrelia genospecies and their principal vectors
Journal of Vector Ecology 21 (2), 178-185
Abstract: Under conditions of similar prevalence of Borrelia infection in tick populations, a generalized infection with the presence of spirochetes in the salivary glands develops much more frequently in the unfed adult Ixodes persulcatus ticks, infected by Borrelia afzelii and Borrelia garinii in Russian natural foci, than in I. scapularis ticks from the northeastern United States, infected with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto. During the first two to three days after infected I. persulcatus begin to engorge, the proportion of ticks with spirochetes in the salivary glands did not increase. In I. persulcatus, therefore, Borrelia migration from the gut into the salivary glands at the beginning of the blood-sucking phase is not a necessary or even important condition for Borrelia transmission with saliva. These data provide evidence for different interrelationships between particular Borrelia genospecies and their principal tick vectors.
(The abstract is excluded from the Creative Commons licence and has been copied with permission by the publisher.)
Database assignments for author(s): Edward I. Korenberg

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
general biology - morphology - evolution

---

Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Ixodes persulcatus		Russia (Eur.)