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Table 1 Species and numbers of small mammals captured and seropositive for B. hermsii antibodies on island sites

From: Host associations and genomic diversity of Borrelia hermsii in an endemic focus of tick-borne relapsing fever in western North America

 

Wild Horse Island

  

Melita Island

 

Total

 

Species

2008

2009

2010

2009

2010

No. positive/No. tested

% Positive

P. maniculatus

3/52a

2/10

0/52

NPb

NP

5/114

4.4

T. hudsonicus

24/26

12/12

3/3

7/7

19/25

65/73

89.0

Microtus sp.

0

0/1

0

0/1

0/2

0/2

0

Total

27/78

14/23

3/55

7/8

19/25

70/189

37.0

  1. aNumber positive/number tested
  2. bNP, not present
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