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Table 2 Species and numbers of small mammals captured and seropositive for B. hermsii antibodies at the mainland sites

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

 

Yellow Bay

  

East Yellow Bay

 

Polson-Big Arm

 

Totals

 

Species

2008

2009

2010

2009

2010

2008

2010

No. positive/No. tested

% Positive

P. maniculatus

4/67a

2/33

2/64

3/17

2/27

0/7

2/36

15/251

6.0

T. hudsonicus

12/16b

20/32c

18/28d

5/5

0

0

0

55/81

67.9

Microtus sp.

2/3

0/4

1/24

0/1

0/5

0

0/12

3/49

6.1

T. ruficaudus

2/3

0/1

0

10/15

3/6

1/1

5/18

21/44

47.7

T. amoenus

2/2

0

0

0

0

0/2

0/1

2/5

40.0

G. sabrinus

1/2

6/6

1/1

2/2

0

0

0

10/11

90.9

Z. princeps

1/5

0/3

0/3

0

0/1

0

0

1/12

8.3

Sorex sp.

1/1

0/4

1/1

0

0

0

0/1

2/7

28.6

S. columbianus

0

0

0

0

0

0

2/4

2/4

50.0

M. erminea

0

0/1

0/2

0

0

0

0

0/3

0

N. cinerea

0

0/1

0

0

0/1

0

0

0/2

0

Totals

25/99

28/85

23/123

20/40

5/40

1/10

9/72

111/469

23.7

  1. aNumber positive/number tested
  2. b15 individuals with 1 recapture
  3. c25 new individuals and 7 recaptures from previous year
  4. d27 individuals with 1 animal from previous year recaptured twice