Document Type

Abstract

Publication Date

2018

DOI

10.5073/jka.2018.459.000

Publication Title

6th International Conference of Rodent Biology and Management and 16th Rodens et Spatium, Potsdam, Germany, 3-7 September 2018, Book of Abstracts

Pages

126

Conference Name

6th International Conference of Rodent Biology and Management and 16th Rodens et Spatium, 3-7 September 2018, Potsdam, Germany

Abstract

Larvae and nymphs of many species of ticks select small mammals, reptiles, and birds as hosts. Since 2011, we have examined more than 1,000 small mammals of 10 species and collected a small tissue sample as well as all visible ticks; rates of infestation range from 18% in harvest mice to 53% in meadow voles. Identification of immature ticks is challenging and requires molecular or genetic methods beyond classification as being from the genus Ixodes or another genus. Ixodes ticks include Ixodes scapularis, the species that transmits the Lyme disease-causing bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi to humans. Of the approximately 2,300 ticks collected from small mammals, 491 were identified as Ixodes spp. ticks.

Comments

ISBN: 978-3-95547-059-3

Original Publication Citation

Rose, R. K., Bitzer, L., Hynes, W., Gaff, H. D., Nadolny, R. & Brinkerhoff, J (2018) Towards understanding the role of small mammals in the transmission of Lyme disease in Virginia, USA. In J. Jacob & J. Eccard (Eds.), 6th International Conference of Rodent Biology and Management and 16th Rodens et Spatium, Potsdam, Germany, 3-7 September 2018, Book of Abstracts (pp. 126). Arno Brynda GmbH. https://ojs.openagrar.de/index.php/JKA/article/view/10124

ORCID

0000-0001-9341-1615 (Rose), 0000-0003-3998-7781 (Hynes), 0000-0002-4034-2684 (Gaff)

Download

Share

 
COinS