Modulatory Effect of Cattle on Risk for Lyme Disease

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Richter, Dania ; Matuschka, Franz-Rainer
• Description:
  To determine the effect of cattle on the risk for Lyme disease, we compared the prevalence of spirochete infection in questing vector ticks collected from a pasture with low-intensity cattle grazing with the prevalence in those collected from a site on which no cattle grazed. The presence of cattle limited the prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l., but not B. miyamotoi, in vector ticks. The reintroduction of traditional, nonintensive agriculture in central Europe may help reduce risk for Lyme disease.
• Subjects:
  Animals Borrelia Burgdorferi Group Cattle DNA, Bacterial Ecosystem Insect Vectors Ixodes Landscape Management Lyme Disease Polymerase Chain Reaction Prevention Research RNA, Ribosomal Sequence Analysis, DNA Zooprophylaxis

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 12(12):1919-1923.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  12
• Issue:
  12
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9b06d21667a66aff47c9a60e2c9498ca62ff88e977701a02aa21aebfe64c47ca
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/16169/cdc_16169_DS1.pdf
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