From: Rapid clearance of Borrelia burgdorferi from the blood circulation
Inoculuma | n | Spirochetes in tissue samples by culture/qPCR (organisms/mg) | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ear | Skin | Joint | Spleen | Bladder | Heart | Brain | ||
Intradermal | ||||||||
 B. persica (7.2 × 105) |  | #/0 | #/0 | −/0 | −/0 | −/0 | −/0 | +/39 |
#/0 | #/0 | −/0 | −/0 | −/0 | −/0 | +/31 | ||
#/0 | −/0 | −/0 | −/0 | −/0 | −/0 | +/89 | ||
#/0 | #/0 | −/0 | −/0 | −/0 | −/0 | +/59 | ||
#/0 | −/0 | −/0 | −/0 | −/0 | −/0 | +/136 | ||
 Positive mice | 5/5 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 5/5 |
Intravenous | ||||||||
 B. persica (7.2 × 105) |  | #/0 | #/0 | −/0 | −/0 | −/0 | −/0 | +/30 |
#/0 | #/0 | −/0 | −/0 | −/0 | −/0 | +/34 | ||
−/0 | −/0 | −/0 | −/0 | −/0 | −/0 | +/75 | ||
#/0 | #/0 | −/0 | −/0 | −/0 | −/0 | +/216 | ||
#/0 | #/0 | −/0 | −/0 | −/0 | −/0 | +/63 | ||
#/0 | #/0 | −/0 | −/0 | −/0 | −/0 | +/74 | ||
 Positive mice | 6/6 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 6/6 |