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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, August 1998, p. 3089-3091, Vol. 64, No. 8
0099-2240/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Failure of Ixodes Ticks To Inherit Borrelia afzelii Infection

Franz-Rainer Matuschka,1,2 Thomas W. Schinkel,1 Birte Klug,1 Andrew Spielman,2 and Dania Richter1,2,*

Institut für Pathologie, Charité, Medizinische Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 12249 Berlin, Germany,1 and Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 021152

Received 13 March 1998/Accepted 4 May 1998

To define conditions promoting inherited infection by Lyme disease spirochetes in Ixodes ticks, we variously infected ticks with Borrelia afzelii and examined their progenies by dark-field microscopy, immunofluorescence, PCR, and serial passage. No episode of inherited infection was evident, regardless of instar or gender infected or frequency of exposure. We suggest that these spirochetes rarely, if ever, are inherited by vector ticks.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115. Phone: (617) 432-1796. Fax: (617) 738-4914. E-mail: drichter{at}hsph.harvard.edu.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, August 1998, p. 3089-3091, Vol. 64, No. 8
0099-2240/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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